Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

[Paul Lussier]

fj1200 at comcast.net writes:

> 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.

Currently it is my understanding that in order to watch *any* HD on
Comcast, you need to have their Digital Cable package + the HD
package.  The Digital Cable package gets you an HD-capable box, and HD
package means someone has actually flipped that particular switch back
at the head end allowing you to receive said content.

Assuming you have an HD tuner in your set, can you get away without
the Digital Cable package and also not have the box?  Currently,
because I a) don't watch a lot of tv. and b) as a cost cutting
measure, I have only "Basic Cable" and no cable box from Comcast.

I was thinking of building a MythTV box with multiple tuner cards, one
for cable and one for OTA HD broadcasts (why pay for something which
is just flying through the air and waiting for a net to be stuck out
to catch it :)

Does that sound reasonable?  Or are there things I'm missing or not
fully considering.
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Seeya,
Paul