MythTV/Comcast going all digital TV in Cambridge [OT]

Greg Rundlett greg_rundlett-nRXb03v5zC6Vc3sceRu5cw at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 1 09:56:44 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Randy Cole <randyokc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> As someone who presently is receiving over the air, and cannot receive
> all the DTV channels without reorienting the antenna and suffering
> glitches (or needs to buy a CEA-909 Smart Antenna if I can find someone
> who is selling a good one), (nor receive WMUR-9 or WENH-11 anymore),
>
> And is considering a bundle or Satellite service,
>
> And needs a DVR / PVR, but doesn't want to pay money for one that is
> locked in to a specific service,
>
>
>
> Since we know Comcrass and RCN are scrambling QAM, does FIOS broadcast
> in clear QAM?

I'm getting 75 channels in clear QAM from Comcast on their Digital
Starter package in Newburyport, MA

That means that I can use them directly with my HDHomerun to
stream/record to any Myth system (or Windows box) on my network.

 mysql> select chanid, channum, freqid, callsign, name from channel;
+--------+---------+--------+---------------+----------------------------------------+
| chanid | channum | freqid | callsign      | name
              |
+--------+---------+--------+---------------+----------------------------------------+
|   1740 | 74#0    | 74     | PUBACC        | Public Access
              |
|   1741 | 74#1    | 74     | EDACC         | Educational Access
              |
|   1742 | 74#2    | 74     | WENH          | 11 WENH  (PBS)
              |
|   1743 | 74#3    | 74     | UNKNOWN74#3   | Telemundo
              |
|   1744 | 74#4    | 74     | UNKNOWN74#4   | shop nbc.com
              |
|   1762 | 76#2    | 76     | HGTV          | Home & Garden Television
              |
|   1763 | 76#3    | 76     | LIFE          | Lifetime
              |
|   1764 | 76#4    | 76     | FNC           | Fox News Channel
              |
|   1765 | 76#5    | 76     | AETV          | A & E Network
              |
|   1766 | 76#6    | 76     | HISTORY       | History
              |
|   1767 | 76#7    | 76     | CNBC          | CNBC
              |
|   1768 | 76#8    | 76     | FX            | FX Networks Inc.
              |
|   1769 | 76#9    | 76     | FAM           | ABC Family
              |
|   1770 | 76#10   | 76     | TRUTV         | Tru TV
              |
|   1771 | 76#11   | 76     | MSNBC         | MSNBC
              |
|   1772 | 77#0    | 77     | NECN          | New England Cable News
              |
|   1773 | 77#1    | 77     | VERSUS        | Versus
              |
|   1774 | 77#2    | 77     | BRAVO         | Bravo
              |
|   1775 | 77#3    | 77     | E             | E! Entertainment
Television            |
|   1776 | 77#4    | 77     | FOOD          | Food Network
              |
|   1777 | 77#5    | 77     | TBS           | Turner Broadcasting
System             |
|   1778 | 77#6    | 77     | TNT           | Turner Network TV
              |
|   1779 | 77#7    | 77     | ESPN          | ESPN
              |
|   1780 | 77#8    | 77     | ESPN2         | ESPN2
              |
|   1781 | 77#9    | 77     | FSN           | Fox Sports Network
              |
|   1782 | 77#10   | 77     | NESN          | New England Sports
Network             |
|   1783 | 77#11   | 77     | HALMRK        | Hallmark Channel
              |
|   1784 | 78#0    | 78     | UNKNOWN78#0   | Adult Swim
              |
|   1785 | 78#1    | 78     | COMEDY        | Comedy Central
              |
|   1786 | 78#2    | 78     | MTV           | MTV - Music Television
              |
|   1787 | 78#3    | 78     | DISN          | Disney Channel
              |
|   1788 | 78#4    | 78     | NIK           | Nickelodeon
              |
|   1789 | 78#5    | 78     | SCIFI         | Science Fiction
              |
|   1790 | 78#6    | 78     | AMC           | American Movie Classics
              |
|   1791 | 78#7    | 78     | DSC           | The Discovery Channel
              |
|   1792 | 78#8    | 78     | TLC           | The Learning Channel
              |
|   1793 | 78#9    | 78     | VH1           | VH1 - Video Hits One
              |
|   1794 | 78#10   | 78     | USA           | USA Network
              |
|   1795 | 79#1    | 79     | QVC           | QVC
              |
|   1796 | 79#2    | 79     | CSPAN         | Cable Satellite Public
Affairs Network |
|   1797 | 79#3    | 79     | APL           | Animal Planet
              |
|   1798 | 79#4    | 79     | TRAV          | Travel Channel
              |
|   1799 | 79#5    | 79     | SPEED         | Speed Channel
              |
|   1800 | 79#6    | 79     | TVLAND        | TV Land
              |
|   1801 | 79#7    | 79     | CNN           | CNN
              |
|   1802 | 79#8    | 79     | GOLF          | The Golf Channel
              |
|   1803 | 79#9    | 79     | HSN           |
              |
|   1804 | 79#10   | 79     | CNN           | Cable News Network
              |
|   1820 | 82#0    | 82     | WBZ           | WBZ (CBS)
              |
|   1821 | 82#1    | 82     | WZMY          | WZMY-TV
              |
|   1822 | 82#2    | 82     | WSBK          | 38 WSBK
              |
|   1823 | 82#3    | 82     | U             | U
              |
|   1824 | 82#4    | 82     | WCVB          | WCVB (ABC)
              |
|   1825 | 82#5    | 82     | FOX           | 25 WFXT FOX (Standard
Def)             |
|   1826 | 82#6    | 82     | UNKNOWN82#6   | 02 PBS
              |
|   1827 | 82#7    | 82     | WGBX          | 44 WGBX (PBS)
              |
|   1828 | 82#8    | 82     | UNKNOWN82#8   | NBC
              |
|   1829 | 82#9    | 82     | WLVI          | 12 WLVI "the CW"
              |
|   1831 | 83#1    | 83     | UNKNOWN83#1   | Infomercial
              |
|   1832 | 83#2    | 83     | RTV           | 703 Russian TV
              |
|   1838 | 83#8    | 83     | TWC           | 47 The Weather Channel
              |
|   1839 | 83#9    | 83     | SPIKETV       | 55 SPIKE
              |
|   1840 | 83#10   | 83     | FUSE          | 271 FUSE
              |
|   1022 | 2_2     | 84     | WGBH HD       | WGBH HD
              |
|   1561 | 56_1    | 84     | WLVI HD       | 808 WLVI HD (STUDIO)
              |
|   1443 | 44_3    | 85     | WGBXC         | WGBH CREATE
              |
|   1444 | 44_4    | 85     | WGBXK         | WGBH KIDS
              |
|   1442 | 44_2    | 85     | WGBXW         | WGBH WORLD
              |
|   1381 | 38_1    | 85     | WSBK HD       | WSBK HD
              |
|   1051 | 5_1     | 86     | WCVB HD       | WCVB HD (STUDIO FIBER)
              |
|   1071 | 7_1     | 86     | WHDH HD       | WHDH HD (STUDIO)
              |
|   1072 | 7_2     | 86     | WHDH TH       | WHDH THIS.TV
              |
|   1251 | 25_1    | 87     | WFXT HD       | WFXT HD (STUDIO)
              |
|   1041 | 4_1     | 87     | WBZ HD        | WBZ HD
              |
|   2143 | 113#13  | 113    | UNKNOWN113#13 |
              |
+--------+---------+--------+---------------+----------------------------------------+
75 rows in set (0.00 sec)


My Set-Top Box does have a firewire port but I have not yet tried
hooking up my Myth backend to it to test the recording of encrypted
content.


>
>
> I assume with satellite you must use the converter boxes.
>
> I know someone who has Direct-TV DVR, and had to buy a new one when they
> changed their compression method.
>
>
>
> Randy
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