[mythtv-users] Can Myth 'tune' these 'free' converter boxes?

[Johnny Walker]

Beware of the limited number of unencrypted firewire channels. There's
a small list here :
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Firewire_Cable_Box_Compatibility

I went ahead and bought the hd-pvr and it works like a champ. (A very
bright, blue, radioactive champ)

-johnny

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:00 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>> Hi Jeff
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jeff <junk_inbox at verizon.net> wrote:
>>> >>> <SNIP>
>>> >>>>> >>   Comcast is giving me 3 of these 'free', low-end digital
>>> >>>>> >> converter
>>> >>>>> >> boxes. Instead of using them on TVs I was wondering whether Myth
>>> >>>>> >> can
>>> >>>>> >> tune them and I'll used them as a digital frontend to my
>>> >>>>> >> PVR-150's. Is
>>> >>>>> >> this possible?
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Yes - You would feed the S-Video and Sterio Audio outputs into your
>>> >>>> PVR-150
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Coax actually but I get the idea.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>
>>> >> You will probably get a better picture with component inputs to the
>>> >> PVR150 instead of having to tune the 150 to channel 3
>>> >>
>>> >> John
>>> >
>>> > I will get NO picture using the S-Video input because there is NO
>>> > S-Video output on this cheap and free device. Coax in, coax out.
>>> > That's it. Other than two Coax connectors there is a channel 3/4
>>> > switch, a place to plug in the power supply and a place to plug in a
>>> > remote IR receiver.
>>> >
>>> > - Mark
>>> >
>>>
>>> Please ignore. I don't know what I'm saying about S-Video here. I read
>>> the top part and went to sleep.
>>>
>>> None the less there are no outputs on this unit other than coax so the
>>> only way to use it would be to hard wire the PVR to channel 3 and use
>>> the IR input to change the channel.
>>>
>>> - Mark
>
>>
>>
> [REORDERED FOR BOTTOM POSTING]
>> Mark,
>>
>> Have you tried this yet?  I am in the same boat:  I have Comcast, an HDHR,
>> and dual PVR analog tuners that will sooner or later be useless as Comcast
>> moves analog content to the digital tier (and, in some cases, encrypting it
>> so that the HDHR is useless as well).
>>
>> Was looking for ways to get at the stuff on the digital tier that is
>> currently encrypted and unavailable to the HDHR.  Channels like TruTV.  I
>> would consider the HD PVR, but that is pretty expensive and will require
>> that I rent yet another STB to serve as a dedicated tuner.
>>
>>
>
> Hi Larry,
>   I'm sorry to say I never did. The hardware I purchased for $20 sits
> here getting dusty. The task never moved from want 'would like to do'
> list to my actual to-do list.
>
>   Like you, I'd like to get this working, but the two free converters
> Comcast provides are used with older TV sets so I cannot experiment
> with them. On the other hand my wife would like to record BBC on Myth
> which would require that I rent a new STB for Myth purposes only. If I
> was to do that then I could maybe look into this problem again, but to
> me this task seemed overly difficult. I suppose it really isn't but
> the instructions I could find at the time left me thinking it might
> turn into a time sink so I didn't proceed.
>
>   At this point I suspect that if I did rent a second STB and it was
> high-def then I might be more likely to use the 1394 port to tune it,
> but I'd be open to anything that worked.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
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