On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:53:20PM -0500, Brian Sutcliffe wrote: > Does anyone have experience with cable cards from time Warner? The monthly > charge is cheap enough, but I will need two. One for each tuner. If I don't > use cable cards I need two cable boxes and two IR blasters. With two cable > cards I need two PCMCIA ports on the PC. > > Time Warner will not let me do a self install of the cable cards. They want > $40 to install them. I am afraid if I have them come out to install two cable > cards on a mythtv setup they will think I have two heads. >
Cable cards are supported only on Windows (and I think, only on Vista, with the new DRM settings). They will not, as far as I know, work with myth. They are also only authorized for pre-built cablecard devices, not general purpose PCs. > I understand I can't do pay per view. I have a hacked AppleTV for that, but I > thought I read somewhere that cable cards were going away. FCC has admitted that as they stand now, they're not usable in most cases. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Quidquid Latine Dictum Sit, Altum Viditur (Anything said in latin sounds profound)
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