2012-10-10, 19:53
(2012-10-10, 19:36)Aubrien Wrote: I see alot of you are using the Ceton cards and HDHomeRun. I can't use those because DISH Network doesn't have CableCards. Actually, only terrestrial cable is required to provide those so nobody with sattellite can get an mcard. But before I switched to DISH for all of the extra channels and lower prices I was looking into one of these CableCard tuners when I had Time Warner and Comcast. I was a little reluctant to invest in them though since you can only use channels that are flagged as copy freely. It also looked like any channel labeled as copy freely can change at any time if the cable company wants to as well. There is basically no promises that it will work tomorrow. I didn't like the sound of that. Also all of my premium channels wouldn't be able to be tunned to with those capture devices using xbmc and mythbackend since they are flagged copy once/never. Are any of you experiencing this issue? For example can you watch HBO, Cinemax, Shotime, etc. with this setup? I'm currently using the analog loophole with a set top box and HD PVR to strip the DRM, but I have a friend with TWC asking what card to get. If I tell him that he cant get some channels to work without being forced to do playback through an "approved media extender" (not xbmc/mythbackend) then he wont be happy. Thanks
I have Verizon FiOS which is the odd one when it comes to channel flagging. Up until very recently everything was marked copy freely but HBO requested all of their channels be set as copy once. I get all of my channels minus HBO/Cinemax but that can change as it has with HBO channels.