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

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

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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