<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 9, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Carl Fongheiser wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">On 2/9/06, <B class="gmail_sendername"><A href="mailto:cweisiger@i-55.com">cweisiger@i-55.com</A></B> <<A href="mailto:cweisiger@i-55.com">cweisiger@i-55.com</A>> wrote:<DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote"></SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> So i thankful that my pvr-350 wont go to waste.<BR><BR>Is there a card that i can get that can read the<BR>digital signal of my cable without the need of a box.<BR><BR>Or do i absolutely need the cable box to descramble<BR> the digital signal from Charter.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR>At the moment, there is no Linux-compatible hardware that can descramble digital cable channels. You'll need the cable box to get the digital cable channels.<BR><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Not quite true. The HD-3000 card can de-code *unencrypted* QAM256 signals. I've read that 70% of the digital cable signals in the USA are unencrypted, but Murphy's Law being what it is the signals in *your* area may well be encrypted.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So far I have been able to get a few digital video channels and a *lot* of "digital music" channels, which have a pretty much static video (only changes when the sang does) and thus very low bandwidth.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I haven't got the digital channels working in MythTV (yet), but I can view them with mplayer.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I *do* pay for digital channels BTW, so I am not "stealing" anything, just using my own equipment to watch them :-)</DIV></BODY></HTML>