MythTV and Your Service?

[Gary Dusbabek]

On 5/18/07, Brandon Beattie <brandon+plug at beatties.us> wrote:

> If I were to attempt dish/direct TV I would personally look at getting a
> set top box that they provide that you can have it send unencryptd streams
> over the firewire and have myth dump those to disk.  There are a handful
> of set top boxes that myth supports that do this.  The main benefit is
> it does the decryption so you should be able to get all channels.  The
> downside is sometimes the boxes can take a little pushing on your part
> and pointing them to FCC articles stating by law they have to provide
> one.

I checked about a year ago, and there was no such box that can be had
from Dish Network (standard definition).  There are a few companies
that do after-market modifications though.  HD might be different
story.  I never checked for DirecTV.

Sadly, the FCC mandate I think you refer to only applies to digital
cable providers (any service using QAM).  It specified that providers
must supply an IEEE 1394 interface for accessing content by a certain
date in 2004.  Googling 47 C.F.R. 76.640(b)(4)(iii) will get you the
details here.

>From what I've gleamed from the Mythtv list, each cable company seems
to have a different treatment for what is and is not encrypted coming
out of this firewire port.  Has anybody local tried doing this?

Gary