[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] comcast moving to settop on Bay Area - goodbye analog

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 00:51:44 UTC 2009


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Marc MERLIN <marc_mtv at merlins.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 12:29:40PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> >> And again, this is all to get recordings of the channels I pay for. I
>> >> can get the low channels with an HDHR efficiently but the family will
>> >> revolt as we watch the same small list of channels similar to Marc
>> >> Merlin's post. Without that list I'm likely to receive divorce
>> >> papers...
>> >
>> > Err, you lost me here. If you can get the channels through HD-HR, why do you
>> > say that you'll end up with fewer channels?
>>
>> Only that what the HDHR gives me is essentially all the stuff below
>> channel 34 that I can get from the free converters that Comcast
>> provides for SD->analog conversion. (Assuming I ever get USB-IR
>> Blasters working.) The HDHR gives me my major networks, OTA type
>> stations. I estimate that these stations account for about 50% of what
>> we record. The other 50% is FX, TBS, TNT, USA, FOOD, HGTV, Comedy
>> Central, Bravo, SciFi, etc. I'll be shot if we loss Monk, Psych,
>> Saving Grace, Damages, The Closer, etc. I'll be nothing but blood on
>> the wall. ;-)

>
> I just checked by having HDTV rescan the cable lineup, and the channels on
> http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/lineupui?Cmd=LocationProgramsWeb&Country=US&Postcode=95014
> mostly match


"HDTV" has in your TV or HDHR?


-- 
Brad Fuller


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