[olug] MythTV - Cox Communications

[Kenny Kant]

Those features look promising.  I am still questioning why we need the 
Haupauge HD card when the HDHomeRun is available already?  The big thing 
in 0.22 features will be that NVIDIA decode support!

BTW here is Cox's first response to me on the firewire port:


"Dear Mr. Kant:

Thank you for your inquiry.  Cox is committed to providing the best 
customer service possible.

I will be happy to assist you and give you all the information that we 
have available concerning the FIREWIRE port.  First only our 6200 HD 
only receivers and DVR receivers have the FIREWIRE ports.  They are 
active and useable.   You will need to update your services to our 
digital service with either the HD only or DVR receiver.  At this time 
this is all the information I have concerning this port.  I am in the 
process of gathering more information for you.  I just wanted to let you
know that we do have this available and what receivers they are on.  I 
will contact you again when I have more information for you.  This will 
probably be sometime next week.  If you have other questions, please let
us know and I will be happy to research them for you.
  
Thank you for choosing Cox Communications as Your Friend in the Digital 
Age!

Thank you.

Cox Communications Online Technical Support Team"




Jon Larsen wrote:
> Hang on for a little bit before you make any decisions.
>
> According to this article, there will be HD-PVR support in 0.22.
> http://mythtvnews.com/2009/01/15/three-things-to-look-forward-to-in-mythtv-022/
>
> Also see -
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.22
>
> Jon L.
>
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Kenny Kant wrote:
>
>   
>> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:56:55 -0600
>> From: Kenny Kant <kenny.kant at running-config.com>
>> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>> To: olug at olug.org
>> Subject: [olug] MythTV - Cox Communications
>>
>> Perhaps this has been discussed before but I wanted to ask you all 
>> question in regard to using MythTV with Cox.  In my past installation I 
>> have gotten along great using variants of the Haupauge Tuner cards for 
>> standard definition viewing.  Now that we have a HDTV setup I want to 
>> build a Myth system to play well in this world.  I understand that I can 
>> get unencrypted QAM stuff off the wire  ...etc   and I also understand 
>> about the over-the-air ATSC stuff.  I am curious as to how I would get 
>> premium HD channels from Cox if I wanted them.  I understand my options 
>> to be the following:
>>
>> - Give up on Myth and purchase a pre-built Media PC and utilize Cox 
>> Cable card technology.
>>
>> - Get the Cox Cable box and utilize the HDMI output or similar to pipe 
>> HD signal into my Myth backend system.  I would then need to control the 
>> Cox box via serial and or an IR-Blaster.
>>
>> - Get the Cox Cable box which has firewire output and utilize this to 
>> pull MPEG2 ..etc straight into Myth.
>>
>> I am really curious as to if the Firewire option is possible.  Do any of 
>> you have Tuners from Cox that actually have this installed?  I have a 
>> friend of mine who claims that it is Federal Law that mandates cable 
>> co's to provide this as an option.  I currently have an email into Cox 
>> asking about this but thought I would check on opinions here.  Am I 
>> missing other BETTER options?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kenny
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