Thanks Ben for the post. I read the article yesterday, but wasn't totally clear on what was going to happen to NTSC/ATSC tuner reception (or I guess transmission in this case).
As a chicagoan, the first question that comes to mind is "But it is good for MythTV?" I just got a PCHDTV-3000 PCI card in the mail and connected it with a $20 internal antenna from radioshack to see if I can get all of the HD channels that I am currently receiving from firewire. (It basically works, but I don't have the processing power/HD space to really test the HD feeds.)
Specifically, I wonder how I will record Comedy Central and Food Network? If I have to setup an IR transmitter to change the channel on my STB and encode from S-video, is it worthwhile even keeping cable at all; instead, watching The Daily Show/Colbert Report online for free and buying DVDs of Good Eats. I'm sure there's other things on cable I might want to watch, but if I cancel I won't know what I'm missing (unless its something like This American Life on Showtime which I wouldn't plan on recording on MythTV anyhow.)
In my part of Chicago there is no competition for Comcast, thus they have a $25 service which provides jack shit and a minimum of $51 to provide what I would consider to be basic cable. You have to spend something like $73 plus $7 for a HD cable box to get any HD programming that's not available over the air. At this point I'm just sick of comcast and its monopolistic power. Notice in the original article (which seems to have disappeared from chicagotribune.com) that Comcast didn't justify the transition by bringing up the terrestrial digital transition. Thus, the forecast for MythTV looks dim, despite what some lawmakers tried to do with their stipulation that cable providers provide firewire outputs. What we need is to stipulate that cable providers must offer all non-premium content over ATSC, without requiring a cablecard.
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Thanks Ben for the post. I read the article yesterday, but wasn't totally clear on what was going to happen to NTSC/ATSC tuner reception (or I guess transmission in this case).
As a chicagoan, the first question that comes to mind is "But it is good for MythTV?" I just got a PCHDTV-3000 PCI card in the mail and connected it with a $20 internal antenna from radioshack to see if I can get all of the HD channels that I am currently receiving from firewire. (It basically works, but I don't have the processing power/HD space to really test the HD feeds.)
Specifically, I wonder how I will record Comedy Central and Food Network? If I have to setup an IR transmitter to change the channel on my STB and encode from S-video, is it worthwhile even keeping cable at all; instead, watching The Daily Show/Colbert Report online for free and buying DVDs of Good Eats. I'm sure there's other things on cable I might want to watch, but if I cancel I won't know what I'm missing (unless its something like This American Life on Showtime which I wouldn't plan on recording on MythTV anyhow.)
In my part of Chicago there is no competition for Comcast, thus they have a $25 service which provides jack shit and a minimum of $51 to provide what I would consider to be basic cable. You have to spend something like $73 plus $7 for a HD cable box to get any HD programming that's not available over the air. At this point I'm just sick of comcast and its monopolistic power. Notice in the original article (which seems to have disappeared from chicagotribune.com) that Comcast didn't justify the transition by bringing up the terrestrial digital transition. Thus, the forecast for MythTV looks dim, despite what some lawmakers tried to do with their stipulation that cable providers provide firewire outputs. What we need is to stipulate that cable providers must offer all non-premium content over ATSC, without requiring a cablecard.