[Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Rick Seiden
Hello everyone. Before I ask this question, I want to say that I've searched linuxtv.org, the archives for this mailing list, google, and a few other digital cable related websites, and I couldn't find an answer. Doesn't mean it's not out there, just that I couldn't find it. So, here's the

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Justin Wetherell
Let me start out by saying; I know bits and pieces of info, so I might not be 100% correct (or even 10%). You can receive a digital signal with alot of the available cards but I believe that the US cable companies haven't opened up the system to allow them actually decode the signal. So you will

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Mlists
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 19:12 +, Justin Wetherell wrote: Let me start out by saying; I know bits and pieces of info, so I might not be 100% correct (or even 10%). You can receive a digital signal with alot of the available cards but I believe that the US cable companies haven't opened

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Michael Ruelle
The only cards i have found that work in the USA only receive non encrypted over the air HDTV. To get it to work with cable in the USA you have to go thru the digital tv box. Unfortuneately all the standards for digital TV in the USA are not open. Story maybe different in Canada, might want to

Re: [Freevo-users] Possibly stupid question

2006-03-26 Thread Rob Shortt
Michael Ruelle wrote: The only cards i have found that work in the USA only receive non encrypted over the air HDTV. To get it to work with cable in the USA you have to go thru the digital tv box. Unfortuneately all the standards for digital TV in the USA are not open. Story maybe different in