[TriLUG] MythTV

Ken Mink ken.mink at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 10:26:04 EST 2009


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:45 PM, Maxwell Spangler
<maxpublic08 at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 16:31 -0500, Ken Mink wrote:
>> I am using MythTV with 5 tuners; a Hauppauge  PVR-250, a Hauppauge
>> PVR-500(dual tuner) and a HDHomeRun(dual tuner). The HDHomeRun is for
>> QAM from TimeWarner Cable. The Hauppauge cards is for capturing analog
>> cable. They are in a CentOS box that is also my home everything
>> server. It sits in the closet in my office. I am using two AppleTVs as
>> frontends. They are both running Fedora10 including the stock kernel.
>
> Does the HDHomeRun receiving QAM get all channels but the pay channels
> like HBO?
>
> Would I be getting the locals in HD as well as the major cable networks
> like CNN, etc, in HD?
>

TWC only has the local networks and local independents available
unencrypted. There's no CNN, USA, or similar available in HD without a
TWC cable box.

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