[ale] Mythtv Build-In

[H P Ladds]

I sure hope that you are right about the development of a PCI CableCARD for
Linux. I'm much less -- uhm -- sanguine about the prospects.
"Cable/satellite companies" and the Open Source community might not see eye
to eye on the DMR. But wow! if such a card did exist, it would be great.

http://slashdot.org/articles/05/11/16/205230.shtml

"The reason that Microsoft is able to get a license for Vista to support
CableCard+DTCP compliant hardware for the PC is because they are willing to
put in the DRM required by the DTLA, a la "Trusted" Computing. No
open-source solution will ever be able to get this license, because the
content companies decree it to be so..."


On 3/16/06, Cliff Free <brd at alumni.clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> MythTV would have the ability to be a one-box solution if cable/satellite
> companies would allow PC DVR cards on their network instead of limiting
> things to their proprietary system. (This is something Congress and the FCC
> is fighting against in an effort to create more competition.)  DRM is really
> hurting MythTV in this respect, because it's the security FUD that keeps the
> providers in this mind-frame.  The only ability that a cable/satellite DVR /
> DVD / one-box solution has that a mythtv box doesn't is the ability to
> decode the encryption of their signal.  Everything else is there in the
> mythtv box (and more).  You can record to Hard-disk, DVD, TRANSCODE to divx,
> xvid, mpeg4, etc. to save HD space, encode and save music, get weather
> reports, and even browse the web.  All of that being said, CableCARD could
> really help mythTV.  Then, instead of needing Comcast's set-top-box, all you
> need is their card which allows your CableCARD compliant hardware to decode
> their signal.  The drawback is that you'd need some sort of CableCARD Reader
> card for your PC, eating-up yet another slot.
>
> On 3/16/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:38 -0400, Cliff Free wrote:
> > > That being said, I'm using Comcast's HD-DVR on the big TV, because
> > > I've been to lazy to set all of this up.
> >
> > But you can record to DVD-R.  To mean having a good working DVR that can
> > get my shows all the time is more important than writing to disk.  I
> > have no DVR but a friend has the Dish version and I've been amazed at
> > how the integration is.  The receiver is the DVR.
> >
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