Re: MythTV + pchdtv 5500 + GCI Digital Cable == Need some help

I don't remember any discussion about being able to use one of those
cards in place of a cable box.

I remember saying something about a news blurb I had recently run across
about a new law requiring cable companies to start making available some
pcmcia cards that plug into the backs of some televisions and Tivo boxes
that would eliminate the need for a cable box. I don't think this has
gone into effect yet though, at least not here.

Seems like these kinds of laws always go into effect on some sort of
timeline. I know that when they passed the law on phone number
portability with cell phones that it took something like year or so
before it took effect here.

I think there was also some discussion of hdtv that same evening. Maybe
the discussions overlapped and confused the issue?

Jim

Jensen, Sean P. wrote:
> This last weekend I finally received a pair of pchdtv's 5500 HDTV PCI cards
> and installed only one into my MythTV box. My goal was to be able to get
> ride of my GCI cable box for watching digital cable and instead use a MythTV
> backend and frontend.
>
> I was able to use the analog mode of the pchdtv card to locate several;
> about 10, channels but these seem to be (ABC, NBC, CPAN, etc). I've not been
> able to get anymore than that. I also tried the DVB mode with limited
> success.
>
> I also have a Hauppauge PVR-250 that I used while in Corvallis, OR; it
> worked great down there. I used the PVR-250 and it picked up the same few
> channels as the pchdtv card.
>
>
> The last time I was at a lug meeting, someone was talking about how they had
> setup a MythTV box with some pchdtv cards and got all the "digital package"
> channels. I'm hoping that all of you might be able to point me in the
> correct direction.
>
> I'm currently running Fedora Core 5 with the latest updates on my MythTV
> backend. Any help or suggested direction would be a great help.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sean P. Jensen
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Received on Mon Oct 16 10:38:53 2006