Re: [Discuss] Verizon FIOS TV and HDHR digital tuner

2015-03-25 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
I have an HD HomeRun Prime (the CableCard version) that I am using with Comcast. I bought it; it's not rented from Comcast. (I also don't rent a cable modem or router from them.) It took three tries and a technician visit to get them to activate it successfully. I wasn't charged for the visit

Re: [Discuss] Verizon FIOS TV and HDHR digital tuner

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
aldo albanese wrote: ...stream files from HDHomerun (a TV Verizon box that stream tv in real time). Are you saying Verizon actually supplied you with the Silicon Dust HDHomerun digital tuner? I presume that would be the HDHR version with a slot for a CableCard descrambler. (Or do you just mean

Re: [Discuss] Verizon FIOS TV and HDHR digital tuner

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: Comcast doesn't really support the HD HomeRun at all. Their people were pretty much clueless about what it even is; That fits with what I've read on the MythTV user's last back when I was following it. So not surprisingly, no change. I don't think the company

Re: [Discuss] Verizon FIOS TV and HDHR digital tuner

2015-03-25 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
So long as the FCC mandate for CableCards remains in place, Comcast and Verizon can't completely eliminate support for them or even restrict them to specific devices. They can only keep doing what they are doing, which is making life difficult for people who want to use them. The long term fate of