mythtv and digital tv

[Derek Atkins]

Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> writes:

>> Anybody out there using a digital tuner card (pci) with mythtv or 
>> perhaps a fourth friggin box ?
>
> I use nothing *but* digital tuner cards these days. However, the only
> channels available in unencrypted digital are the same ones you'd get
> over the air. You need a set top box of some sort, feeding either
> something like a pvr-250 via svid or an hd box feeding the hauppauge
> hd-pvr to record anything but abc/nbc/cbs/fox/pbs/etc. Or to get lucky
> and have provider who doesn't encrypt things, either in their on-wire
> digital format (very rare) or out the firewire port on an hd cable box
> (only slightly less rare than the prior loophole).

Unfortunately that's not exactly true either.  At least on RCN I
can get more HD over-the-air than I can via unencrypted QAM.

-derek

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