Well the day is soon coming when I'll be moved into my new home and the Freevo
will come out of storage (of course) and life will continue on fairly normally
(hopefully)...
However, in this new place, we have Comcast's all-digital cable service. I have
some questions about Freevo's ability to get along with this service. I'm sorry
if some of these have been covered before... obviously I wasn't paying close
attention since they didn't quite apply to me. I ask for forgiveness up front.
So now with all-digital cable my PVR-250's tuner is... useless. The better
things get, the less options we have. Joy.
I briefly looked into QAM tuner cards, but it appears Comcast down here only
broadcasts the federally mandated channels in the clear (about 20 channels,
half of which you can pick up OTA, the other half are "shopping" and
government), everything else is encrypted. And yet 250 miles north, my friend
reports that Comcast "offers" over 160 channels in Clear QAM (including ones
not on his tier and some in HD), available to any decent digital tuner. Double
Joy.
My first question: Is there a way to get digital encrypted cable via a PC card?
Is the mythical CableCard PC card available to the end-user? Even if it was,
are there drivers available for Linux? Will this dream ever be a reality? I
suppose I should also ask if Comcast would supply me with a CableCard if I did
have a PC card to put it in...
Question-the-second: How well does Freevo work with IR-blasting channel change
commands to the cable box? I saw the message recently from Pascal, which was
good timing: I had forgotten if Freevo could even do it (and how to set it up).
I'm coming to terms with the fact I'll be running Freevo to record video input
from the cable box and while that is better than nothing, it's a shame I won't
be able to watch one thing (live) while recording another.
And as always, I would accept possible solutions that I haven't yet thought of
from anyone here: The collected knowledge of this list is what makes it such a
powerful tool.
Cheers, and can't wait to get my Freevo back. I miss my internet radio stations
(and NPR podcasts) most of all!
James
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