<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>----- "scram69" <scram69@gmail.com> wrote:
<br>> From: "scram69" <scram69@gmail.com><br>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:50:30 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific<br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can Myth 'tune' these 'free' converter boxes?<br>><br>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> > There are no posts on the link you gave for the Bay Area since April,<br>> > 2008 so that's probably all changed.<br>> ><br>> > Once possibility might be to tune the STB using either 1394 or the IR<br>> > Link and then record in analog using my old PVR-150's? Same quality<br>> > we'd get from the free tuners but access to all the subscribed<br>> > channels I think...<br>> ><br>> > Thanks,<br>> > Mark<br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > mythtv-users mailing list<br>> > mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br>> Mark,<br>> According to Silicon Dust<br>> http://www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/lineup_web/US:95030#lineup_1135827<br>> comcast is currently providing 127 channels in Los Gatos unencrypted<br>> over QAM. You don't need their HDHomerun (although I would highly<br>> recommend it), any QAM tuner will do. There's an outfit in Livermore,<br>> Retek Direct, selling myth-compatible ATI HDTV Wonder PCI cards for<br>> $14 a piece on fleabay. I'm using one now, for when I need to record<br>> Disney, Sprout, and PBS all at the same time :)<br><br>DO NOT GET USED TO IT.<br><br>For about six months I was wallowing in the joy of 100 or so clear QAM stations.<br><br>Over the last week Comcast encrypted everything but the local broadcast QAM channels, some government and local access stuff, and a few odds and ends (Discover, CSPAN, some Spanish language stations). NOTHING ELSE!<br><br>Right now I'm trying to get an IR blaster up and running so I can connect PVR-150 to a set top box. That will let me record from the "good" cable channels.<br> </div></body></html>