HDTV storage needs

[dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:34:28AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 10/02/2008 10:07 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:36:34AM -0400, John.Boland-4MWP6VXyifjQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >  
> >>you said you have three tuners. what are using for a signal source? I'm
> >>just using a splitter and getting the analog signal off my cable (rcn).
> >>this limits me to about channel 70 for the two cards.  unfortunately, my
> >>backend doesn't have firewire (yet) so that I could tap into the hd
> >>cable box.
> >>    
> >
> >RCN doesn't do analog in Waltham any more :(
> >  
> AFIK, cable companies are required to provide analog until 2012. They 
> can do this by either providing analog/DT/HD feeds or by providing 
> digital converter boxes free of charge to some subscribers. Currently 
> Comcast is providing analog, but they have cut out a few of channels.

Right. But Derek and I are unhappy that RCN chose to cut the
analog feed entirely, encrypt almost all the QAM channels, and
thus require us to buy STBs and render our HDHRs significantly
less useful.

-dsr-




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