On Tuesday 08 February 2005 17:24, Ian Forde wrote: > > 3. I also saw mention that the video output (except analog/HD) is > > encrypted. Is this true? > > Not necessarily. In my case, it's coming through quite nicely and > unencrypted.
I believe the whole point of the FCC mandate to provide enabled FireWire output on cable boxes was that it would be unencrypted... but, see below... > > 4. Not soo important (and maybe stupid), but will this enable me to > > record/view HD content through myth? I don't have a hdtv set. I have > > a standard 27" tv and do a lot of my viewing on the backend with a lcd > > monitor. The cable companies are not required to provide HD resolution on the Firewire output. Most likely any HD content will be transcoded inside the cable box to, say, 480p before it's output over Firewire. As for viewing, that's totally independent of your cable box/Firewire setup. Since the recording are probably not going to be HD anyway, it really doesn't matter that you're going to be viewing them on a standard TV. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
