[mythtv-users] HDHR Prime queries

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi James,

Friday, May 22, 2015, 3:54:32 AM, you wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 2015, James Miller wrote:

>> In fact, I just stopped in at the TWC store and picked up an M-card to begin 
>> some initial experiments. They tried to give me a digital transport adapter 
>> along with it, but I declined. I'm interested, initially, to see what (if 
>> anything) comes in without the DTA. I'll report back on that.

> That turned out to be a pretty quick test. Setting up the M-card was 
> fairly brief and painless: about a 5-minute phone call to dictate some
> configuration information and edit a couple of things was all it took.

> After that I did a channel scan using the HDHDR3's web interface. It found
> close to 100 channels. It became immediately clear, however, that things
> were not going to go so well for my purposes: at least half of those 
> channels had a little "DRM" graphic beside them. It looked to me like the
> channels without that graphic were mostly the clear QAM channels I'd 
> previously detected, before having inserted the M-card, with this device.

> I decided to test a couple of recordings, one of a channel marked with the
> DRM graphic, and another of a channel without the graphic (one of the new
> channels that did not show up in the scan list before I got the M-card).
> The results were predictable: the recording starts and finishes on the
> channel with the DRM graphic, but no video or audio content displays on
> playback; for the channel not marked with the DRM graphic, the recording
> also succeeds but it plays back fine. The DRM channel I tested is, by the
> way, one that I continue to bring in in analog format through one of my
> HVR-1950's.

> So, obviously DRM restrictions are already in place for most digital cable
> broadcasting in my area. The HDHR3 therefore isn't going to be of much use
> to me. Looks like, for MythTV users in my area who get content from TWC,
> only a STB/DTA with component video out will allow them to continue using
> their systems as they had previously.

> Just out of curiosity, had I gotten the DTA I was offered at the TWC 
> store, would anything have gone differently (I have no component video in
> on this machine and I believe there was no component video out on the 
> DTA)? The DRM restrictions would still have prevented me from recording
> anything, right?
> _______________________________________________

Did you update your firmware to the latest. I vaguely remember
something about this being resolved by the newest firmware.


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