Tivo vs MythTV

Chip Marshall chip at 2bithacker.net
Wed Nov 8 23:38:49 EST 2006


On November 08, 2006, Ben Scott sent me the following:
>  Another practical upshot of all that is that you'll never see a
> Linux PC that you can plug a CableCARD into.  I suspect you'll never
> even be able to do it on 'doze.  The cable operators want things
> locked up tight.

There are/will be CableCard adapters for PCs, such as the ATi OCUR (Open
Cable Uni-directional Receiver), but from what I've seen, they'll only
be available to Windows Media Center PC OEMs.

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