[mythtv-users] Comcast Cable encrypted channels

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 23:38:34 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Jim Goddard<monkeys_typing at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a digital tuner/capture card Hauppauge HVR2250 that came with a
> remote and IR blasters.  The tuner card is working great in MythTV, however,
> I really want to use it to record the cable channels I am paying Comcast
> for.  Since my card has ATSC support only so far, I wanted to capture the
> ATSC stream coming out of my cable box, but tune using the IR blaster to
> control the cable box.  There is currently no way to supply an external
> channel changing script to MythTV using mythtv-setup for a DVB tuner.
>
> Comcast assures me that my cable box supplies an ATSC signal as well as the
> analog.  I have a Motorola DCH70 cable box.

Comcast is lying to you or doesn't know any better.  This box provides
no QAM/ATSC output whatsoever-- QAM modulations is very expensive, and
this box doesn't do it.

Robert


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