I was at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) last week and gathered a bit of information on CableCard. Basically, it allows you to record digital cable (read: premium and HD) content without having to have a digital cable box and IR blaster. You just stick one of these things in your computer, buy a decoder card from your cable provider, and it works. In theory.
The reality is that these CableCard devices will only be able through OEMs so don't expect to be buying one from NewEgg any time soon. You might be able to find one on Ebay when they become widespread but don't count on it. It also appears that the hardware will remain closed and undocumented, further hindering Linux adoption. AFAIK, Microsoft Vista Media Center will be the only way to make use of these cards. Finally, not all cable providers have signed on to support CableCard and the ones that have are planning to charge a higher monthly fee than a normal digital cable box. The only two providers that I know for sure are going to be providing CableCard support are DirecTV and Comcast. That being said, CableCard isn't a viable option for MythTV. If over-the-air HDTV isn't an alternative either, your choices are fairly limited. pcHDTV sells the HD-3000 card that does to cable HDTV and is supported by MythTV but there appear to be some limitations on the content available to you (other than the fact that most of it is encrypted). I don't know much about the pcHDTV cards but I think that's probably your best bet. On 1/14/06, Reshat Sabiq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I assume no, because the HDTV cards for PCs only do over-the-air. But > i'd appreciate your feedback. > > Basically, i'm considering buying an HDTV monitor, and i have a strong > feeling that not buying a tuner, and probably also a DVR to go w/ it > (since i'm likely to need to record things for later viewing), is not an > option. > > Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > -- Jeremy Grosser Student Rochester Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
