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EyeTV3 + cablecard tuner? (Bright House)

post #1 of 8
2/23/13 at 7:14am
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Three parts to this question -

1. Anyone know of a box (like HDHR Prime) that has a cablecard tuner that works with EyeTV3?

2. We recently moved and our new cable company (Bright House) copy-protect flags LOTS of channels that cannot be transferred off of our TiVo Premiere 4 to the Mac/Network HDD to clear up room. USA TNT TCM and more.
These are BASE CABLE CHANNELS - NOT PREMIUM! mad.gif

How does EyeTV3 handle these flags? Are they seen and obeyed - or ignored since the recording is already ON a HDD?

3. Bright House also uses this odd box called a Tuning Adapter - even if you use a cablecard you still need one to get the full lineup. How would that effect EyeTV "seeing" the channels properly?
Without a TA the channel lineup is greatly reduced off of a straight in cable connection.
In the end we might just be limited to the really really base cable channels...off of a straight in cable - nothing more. :-/
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post #2 of 8
2/23/13 at 12:54pm
1. No because OSX does not and likely never will support the CA/DRM required to handle protected premium channel content.
2. EyeTV does not and likely never will support tuning adapters since they are pretty much tied to cablecard devices to allow you to tune to the channels they have put on SDV-usually the less frequently watched channels. The TA is a measure to reduce bandwidth for the cable provider.
3. The only channels they are obligated to flag as copy freely are the broadcast channels, otherwise everything from else except the premiums / on-demand can be copy once.
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post #3 of 8
2/23/13 at 12:57pm
As a follow up-it would be totally feasible for Elgato to support the HDHomeRun cablecard tuner and allow you to stream/record encrypted but flagged copy freely channels, however they have intentionally not done this. It should be relatively easy for them to enable this, but they likely have not since they probably fear a flood of support calls for why folks have a cablecard tuner but can only tune/record a subset of the channels they subscribe to.....
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post #4 of 8
2/23/13 at 2:57pm
Older versions of EyeTV 3 can work with unencrypted channels with HDHomerun Prime. I was able to eventually get 4 of 6 tuners on each HDHomerun Prime 6 CC to work in my situation. Since it's an older version of EyeTV, obviously not the ideal situation. See this thread for details:
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1384516/has-anyone-successfully-hacked-eyetv-to-support-hdhr-prime

I have no idea about tuning adpater.
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post #5 of 8
2/23/13 at 8:54pm
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Originally Posted by qz3fwd View Post

As a follow up-it would be totally feasible for Elgato to support the HDHomeRun cablecard tuner and allow you to stream/record encrypted but flagged copy freely channels, however they have intentionally not done this. It should be relatively easy for them to enable this, but they likely have not since they probably fear a flood of support calls for why folks have a cablecard tuner but can only tune/record a subset of the channels they subscribe to.....
It's probably that the Mac based companies are too darn cheap to get certified. Take a look at the CableLab Fee schedules: http://www.cablelabs.com/certqual/ and you'll see there isn't much of an ROI in it. rolleyes.gif
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post #6 of 8
2/28/13 at 7:04am
There is another solution to this....

Find yourself some Windows Media Center Appliances or use your xBox as both will handle the DRM just fine.
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post #7 of 8
2/28/13 at 10:54am
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Originally Posted by olyteddy View Post

It's probably that the Mac based companies are too darn cheap to get certified. Take a look at the CableLab Fee schedules: http://www.cablelabs.com/certqual/ and you'll see there isn't much of an ROI in it. rolleyes.gif

There is no CableLabs certification required for the DRIR (the tuner software, such as WMC). It only needs to implement the DRI (freely available spec) and support an approved DRM solution that the tuner also supports (WMDRM, Real Helix, DTCP-IP, depending on the tuner).

However, I'm not certain that Macs support HDCP - does anyone know? If not, there's no way to get protected content on them.
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post #8 of 8
2/28/13 at 12:30pm
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I'm not certain that Macs support HDCP - does anyone know?

Apple started adding HDCP to Macs back in 2008 or so when they switched to Mini-DisplayPort for video out, back then certain iTunes store content in HD started to cause problems if you weren't connected to an HDTV with HDCP compliance. It's probably what's more correctly called DPCP, and the Apple TV has supported HDCP via HDMI out for a quite a long time as well. The DRM on the files, though, was Apple's own FairPlay.
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