While the news broke not too long ago right here on The DMZ, we’re back this month to discuss CableCard moving beyond the Media Center scope and into the wild. So far, this is all taking place within the MythTV realm and as such we’ve brought together two folks who will be affected by the recent CableLabs spec changes. First up is Patrick Archibald. You may remember Patrick from Episode 03, dedicated completely to MythTV. Our second guest this month is Jeremy Hammer, Vice President of Systems Integration for Ceton Corporation, creators of the Ceton InfiniTV4. A four tuner CableCard solution.
The recent changes to the CableCard Spec. are what prompted this month’s show, and these guys take the time to run through how this changes the HTPC picture. Even though there haven’t been any SageTV announcements as of yet, we walk through those possibilities as well. We thank them both for joining us!
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SageMCTuner will work for LiveTV in Sage. There isn't a distinction b/w live and recorded TV in Sage so when it sends a tune request SageMCTuner schedules a 12 hour (configurable) recorded TV request with MC and then does a container swap (not transcoding) from WTV->MPEG (or TS) back into the Sage recording directory.
Also, as Jerry noted it will only work with Copy Freely content.
In the discussion about the Ceton card being useless for the Sage/Myth users if Comcast changed the settings from copy freely to copy once is not exactly true. The card itself would work just fine in Media Center, just not in Sage/Myth. The Sage/Myth user may find it distasteful to use MC but the card would not be useless as you could still use it just fine, just not the way they would want.
I used to use BeyondTV and liked it over MC but since they no longer update and would not work with cablecard either I just moved on to MC.