[TriLUG] mythtv, QAM 256, & Time Warner Cable...

[Reginald Reed]

Actually I believe what Josh is alluding to is analog capture from a
digital cable box, the same outputs used by a television.  They won't
be disabling those anytime soon.

But speaking of port availability, Firewire is enabled on my
Scientific Atlanta 8300HD HD DVR.  I was able to connect my Macbook
and capture data.  The data is encrypted so I can't do anything with
it but it bodes well for the potential of using firewire to connect to
HD display.

On 10/16/06, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> I've heard rumors that TW has disabled just about any port/plug in the
> cable box that the possibly can. Can someone squash that rumor?
>
> I've been interested in this too ...but have been hesitant to make the
> jump due to this, and compatibility with digital / hd.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Josh Vickery
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 3:33 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] mythtv, QAM 256, & Time Warner Cable...
>
> I've done this in the past, but all I have is basic cable.  If you want
> the digital channels you would probably need to do what Tivo and the
> like do, which is to connect your video capture card to the output of
> your digital cable box, and use an infrared sender to allow MythTV to
> control the digital cable box.
>
> Josh
>
> On 10/16/06, Trey Ethridge <tale at juno.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone currently running mythtv and using Time Warner cable?  I'd
> > like to know what channels I can receive by just hooking up the cable
> > to a pcHDTV 5500 tuner card (I'm considering buying one).  I believe
> > that I can receive some channels since they use QAM.  Could I receive
> > digital channels in addition to the analog and HD channels?
> >
> > Right now, I have the digital cable package and the HD PVR from
> > Scientific Atlantic.  I would like to replace it with a mythtv box,
> > but I don't want to loose functionality.  If I would have to watch
> > just HD channels and analog channels, then I think I'll stick with
> > what I have now.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -- Trey
> >
> >
> >
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