[mythtv-users] OT: Homerun Prime

[Jerry Rubinow]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
>
> > A Verizon FiOS Business TV Sales rep told me that once they hand me the
> drop,
> > they don't care how many TVs I connect to it, as long as they're all a)
> > on the premises and b) not available to the commercial public. I assume
> > they don't care whether I use multicast or coax to connect them. :-)
>
> A quick followup on this: Technical support later told me that the signal
> out the back of the ONT was encrypted, and I would need cablecards or STBs
> on each set/tuner.
>
> I then spoke with the installer who was scheduled to actually do the work,
> and he contradicts that: he says *nothing* is encrypted out the back of the
> ONT, but it *is* QAM-256, and you need a new enough tuner to see it --
> which
> the HDHR Tech *is*.
>
> I'm not sure I believe that they're sending unencrypted premium and pay
> channels out the back; I'm assuming if that were true, I'd have heard it
> by now; can anyone confirm or deny?


Denied.  All the non-OTA channels (plus a handful of others like shopping
channels) you aren't subscribed to will generally be scrambled straight off
the ONT.   Here in the PA area, this is the case, anyway.  With a plain
HDHR, I could only get the OTA channels FIOS carries.  With the HDHR Prime
of course, I can get all the ones I subscribe to.

I always get the differences wrong between scrambled vs encrypted vs DRM vs
encoding so I won't try, but practically you can't get most channels
straight off the ONT without a CableCard being involved somehow.

-Jerry
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