[mythtv-users] Switching away from comcast to online streams

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/28/2014 07:46 PM, John Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 09:22 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 01/28/2014 12:13 AM, John Morris wrote:
>>> Know what else?  I currently have to pay Suddenlink for a half dozen
>>> channels I can't actually watch.  (TBS, TVLAND, OXYGEN, CHILLER, SYFY,
>>> one of the FOX sports channels, etc.)
>> Actually, no.  That's completely untrue.  You *can* watch all of those
>> channels.  You just can't record them into MythTV (well, you can--just
>> need an HD-PVR or PVR-150).  If you want to watch them, use the
>> cable-co-provided equipment and everything just works "automagically."
> Not exactly.  I have a Homerun Prime + CableCard.  My only available PC
> that could run media center is a Thinkpad that is work issued so I can't
> buy the add on.  Not all PCs even qualify for the right to buy, and few
> self built ones do, but all of my own are Microsoft Free anyway.  My
> Sony BD player can only see the copy freely content.  I rent a
> CableCard, and I pay for service, expecting it to actually work should
> not be an unreasonable demand, especially since they all DID work when I
> first signed up.  Maybe you meekly bend over and allow them to dictate
> the equipment you use, I won't.  If the next time they 'change the
> bargain' they demand the purchase of one of three (all crappy)
> televisions to watch their precious content upon will you again bow to
> their demands?  When enough channels that I care about stop I'll join
> ranks of the cord cutters.
>
> Some of the missing channels would be available in standard def if I
> bought a non-prime but aren't available with a CableCard present.  TBS
> HD is actually available on my TV's QAM tuner but not via CableCard.
> Madness.
>
>> Again, you can watch it...
> Watching TV without Myth after a decade of having it would be pointless
> for me, certainly not worth the subscription fees at any rate.  And I
> have seen the Suddenlink DVR.  It blows.
>
>> If you really want to watch them, get SuddenLink equipment.  If you
>> really want to record them into MythTV, get an HD-PVR (or multiple--one
>> per SuddenLink STB).
> Nope.  When the deal becomes take it or leave it, I'm already planning
> on leaving it.  I have had cable for decades and almost of it has been
> freely recordable on VCRs or Myth with no mucking about with cable
> boxes.  They seem intent on making their product harder and harder to
> actually use; why fight em too hard, they make it difficult enough and
> they can join AT&T and POTS lines in the history books.  Stupid should
> hurt.

Which all boils down to exactly what I said, right?  You /can/ watch 
them, but you choose not to.

That's a perfectly valid choice, but please remember it's a choice and 
not a "can't."

Mike