[mythtv-users] (US) Goodbye to unencrypted QAM...

[Ramon Redondo]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Though I hate to be a bearer of bad news, the FCC made a decision
> yesterday to permit cable MSOs to turn on the limited encryption on
> their "DTA" boxes.  This has some fairly far-reaching implications.
> To put it simply, it permits the cable companies to roll out low cost
> analog terminal adapters and lock down all the unencrypted QAM
> (besides, possibly, the local broadcasts).


This is going to make me sad... My cable provider recently switched all of
their 'expanded basic' cable to unencrypted QAM.  And I bought an HDHomeRun
to take advantage of that and ditched the use of my analog capture card.
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