[mythtv-users] FCC releases CableCard changes

[Phil Bridges]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Friday, October 15, 2010 01:45:14 pm Phil Bridges wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> >>> On 10/15/2010 15:25, Phil Bridges wrote:
>> >>>> Anybody care to pontificate on how this affects a MythTV / CableCard
>> >>>> collaboration?
>> >>>
>> >>> None at all.  The release deals with the availability, pricing, and
>> >>> installation of customer owned CableCard hardware.  It makes no mention
>> >>> on access restrictions on content made available through CableCard
>> >>> devices.
>> >>>
>> >>> You'll be able to lease a card, and have a tech that is properly
>> >>> trained on how to install it, but you're still going to be limited to
>> >>> the 'copy freely' content.
>> >>
>> >> As it is, I'd be happy to get a 3- or 4-tuner Linux-compatible
>> >> CableCard box that could tune "copy freely" content.
>> >
>> > except nothing will be set to "copy freely"...
>>
>> Not in my case.
>
> Really? What planet do you live on? I might like to move there.
>
> You only need a CableCard for encrypted content, I can't imagine anything labeled as "copy freely" that the cable
> companies would bother encrypting. They might just as well put it out as clear QAM.
>

Believe it or not, I'm on Comcast.  I have the majority of my channels
marked "Copy Freely" out of my cable box - I'm using the Firewire
output to record them.