On Friday 18 November 2005 09:12, Mark J. Small wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm looking in to the HD cards like the 3000 and the fusion 5 to use with > digital cable. On my system there are a lot of SD channels in the clear as > well. > > I was looking at the diagnostic menus on my cable box, and there I can see > information like the frequency and whether the channel is in the clear or > not. I have seen three options as to whether a channel is clear or not. > They are: > > CLR -- obviously clear > UNE -- unencrypted?? > UNC -- encrypted > > Does anyone know what the difference between clear and unencrypted is? > Would I be able to get unencrypted channels with a tuner card? > > Mark
many cable companies encrypt the signal so that only a cable box can unencrypt it, then 5C comes into play as to whether the box will send the signal out over firewire. 5C=0 is basically off, ie no 5C device needed 5C=1 is copy once 5C=2 is copy never (ie only for playback to a TV). I happen to be visiting the folks this weekend and made the discovery that their DCT6412 has 5C=0 for EVERYTHING. I'm jealous, and trying to figure out how to get this dual tuner DVR to send the video to my laptop, its a lot more finicky than my DCT6200 at home. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
