On 5/18/07, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I were to attempt dish/direct TV I would personally look at getting a set top box that they provide that you can have it send unencryptd streams over the firewire and have myth dump those to disk. There are a handful of set top boxes that myth supports that do this. The main benefit is it does the decryption so you should be able to get all channels. The downside is sometimes the boxes can take a little pushing on your part and pointing them to FCC articles stating by law they have to provide one.
I checked about a year ago, and there was no such box that can be had from Dish Network (standard definition). There are a few companies that do after-market modifications though. HD might be different story. I never checked for DirecTV. Sadly, the FCC mandate I think you refer to only applies to digital cable providers (any service using QAM). It specified that providers must supply an IEEE 1394 interface for accessing content by a certain date in 2004. Googling 47 C.F.R. 76.640(b)(4)(iii) will get you the details here.
From what I've gleamed from the Mythtv list, each cable company seems
to have a different treatment for what is and is not encrypted coming out of this firewire port. Has anybody local tried doing this? Gary /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
