Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

Travis Roy travis at scootz.net
Tue Dec 13 16:10:01 EST 2005


> 
> I recently looked into creating a MythTV box for HD, 
 > but unfortunately, there are no cable-ready receiver cards,
 > so all you can do is receive and record OTA (over the air)
 > HD broadcasts, so if you wanted to record say a Discovery
 > HD program, you are SOL.  When WinTV or Hauppage etc come
 > out with an HD card that can receive HD  cable programs,
 > then that is when I will be dumping Comcast's DVR box and
 > make my own PVR.

MythTV has support for recording from, and controlling cable boxes, via 
Firewire, including HD.

This is of course hit or miss depending on the cable company, firware on 
the box, and if they even know they're allowing it or not.



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