[mythtv-users] Cablecard and myth

[John Adams]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:06:48 +0000
Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:48 PM, glen <glenb at glenb.us> wrote:
> .....
> > what fcc citations ? as far as i know they are fully authorized to
> > mark shows copy once.
> 
> Yes, but that is not exactly what is happening here.  What is
> happening is that there is *no* CCI specified, but there is a CGMS
> setting.  That is just broken engineering.
> 
> And Comcast (corporate policy) has always been to mark
> most content CCI=unrestricted (copy freely), with the usual
> exceptions (premiums, ppv, etc.)

The problem turned out to be broken firmware in the cable card which
had been  updated automatically.  A Comcast tier2 engineer solved it
after 15 days 

-- 
John Adams (mythtv at onevista.com)