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

[Ben Pitzer]

So what ports do you need in a cable box?  The IR port is the same one that
your remote uses, so it's difficult to turn that one off.  As for the other
ports (USB, for example), they were always 'next gen' and I've never really
heard what they were supposed to be for, anyway.  So frankly, it's not that
they've disabled any ports, it's just that they haven't made use of some of
the ones that the vendors are throwing in there far ahead of any major cable
company being able to make use of them.

-Ben Pitzer


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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