[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun and mythtv

Kirk Bocek t004 at kbocek.com
Sat Sep 21 03:53:04 UTC 2013


On 9/20/2013 5:53 PM, James Pifer wrote:
> On 9/20/2013 8:03 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:39 PM, James Pifer 
>> <jamespifer at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> .... (Time Warner in the Charlotte, NC region).
>> ...
>>> will it work with either of these devices and mythtv?
>> While every franchise is "special", in Time Warner
>> land almost everything is marked Copy Once, with
>> the (usual) exception of the OTA channels (although
>> there have been reports on other lists that that is not
>> always true either).
>>
>> So, MythTV and QAM/CableCard tuners are of
>> very limited value in Time Warner land (at best
>> you can get the OTA channels).  Only solutions
>> that support content encryption (such as TiVo,
>> WMC, and TWC's own STBs) can record most
>> content on Time Warner.
>>
>> The *usual* fallback if one is stuck with TWC
>> is the HD-PVR using the analogue hole.  See
>> the wiki for details.
>>
>> Gary
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>
> That's disappointing.....
>
> Thanks,
> James

But the HD analog capture route does work. I did it for about a year 
before the Prime came out. A bit clunky what with needing to do either 
IR blasting or firewire for channel changing. Then you need to rent one 
cable box for each channel you want to be able to tune at the same time.

But it does work.




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