[ubuntu-mythtv] Oh Canada - How do you get to the land of HD???

[Mike Church]

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>     1.  Oh, Canada. Sigh. (Mike Church)
>     2. Re:  Oh, Canada. Sigh. (Stephen P. Villano)
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> Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 12:10:22 -0700
> From: Mike Church <church at sfu.ca>
> To: ubuntu-mythtv at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: [ubuntu-mythtv] Oh, Canada. Sigh.
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> Hello people:
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> With the digitalization of Canada's TV offerings, and the lack of
> unencrypted QAM (I have a tuner card but it only works on the HD antenna
> I have), I am wondering:
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> 1) How do people now use mythtv?
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> Do you use firewire off the set-top box?  I tried it on a friend's
> machine with poor, unreliable (massively flakey) results, but that was a
> while ago.
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> Do you use PVR-150s or HVR-1600 cards plugged straight into the signal?
> This is my setup now, and though I get two tuners, it is low Q and I
> fear will disappear.
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> Do you use it for all other media and just download your TV off bittorrent?
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> What is the de-facto setup nowadays?
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 00:58:50 -0400
From: "Stephen P. Villano"<stephen.p.villano at gmail.com>
To:ubuntu-mythtv at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-mythtv] Oh, Canada. Sigh.
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I'm in the US, have Verizon FIOS service for cable and internet.
I use an HD Homerun Prime tuner on my network, with cablecard.
If I were to switch to antenna, I'd get an HDHomerun Plus tuner.
Both are units that go onto my LAN here and MythTV controls those tuners
and records from them.
My drives are currently scattered on various NFS mounts, I'll be further
consolidating them as funding permits onto a solid RAID unit. My primary
BE is on an old Dell Poweredge 2850. Frontends are varied units,
typically older computers and even one Acer Aspire One netbook.

What are the sort of issues that you are experiencing?


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I want to get HD, or at least digital regular channels on my PVR-150s.

As I understand, the only way in Canada to get HD is to:

1. Get the firewire interface working (best I ever got was a change 
channel then insta-death)
2. Hook up a PVR-150 with the ir-blaster, and get it to change the 
channel on the digital box, but this takes over the cable box (so I 
gather I need n cable boxes to record n channels.  I have done this with 
my friend's dad, and it is 90% ok, but fails sometimes.

Has no one figured out a good way to do this?  In Canada we can't get 
unscrambled QAM which would be awesome, because then I could just hook 
up an HVR-1600 and boom - HD.  THis works with an external antenna 
perfectly, so as long as I can get unscambled I am golden. Unfortunately 
the oligopolies don't allow us peons to have that.

Surely this problem is solved, given the plethora of HD recordings of 
sports events, etc available via bittorrent.





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Mike Church
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