Phoenix Linux User's Group (PLUG) Installfest - Saturday, September 24, 10am-5pm

[Jonathan Claxton]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Josh Coffman wrote:

>
>
> --- Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 19:02 +0000, Jonathan Claxton
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Alexander Henry wrote:
> > >
> > > > Community event: Phoenix Linux User's Group
> > (PLUG) Installfest.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Just to let everyone here know... I will be
> > bringing in a box that
> > > receives HDTV channels using the pcHDTV's HD3000
> > card.
> > >
> > > With the site of the installfest so close to the
> > TV transmiting towels,
> > > should be able to pick up the channels and show on
> > my LCD monitor witch is
> > > a Dell 2005FPW(yea, it's the wide screen monitor
> > :) ) Just got to remember
> > > to bring my antenna with me.
> > ----
> > I was really psyched about mythtv and thinking about
> > getting one of the
> > HD3000's when I found out that it only works on over
> > the airwaves and I
> > cannot grab stuff off Cox HD (unless that has
> > somehow changed) as I do
> > have Cox HD and an HD tv.
> >
> > I may have to show up anyway just to look-see
> >
> > Craig
>
> I'm not familiar with a HD3000, but I'm pretty sure
> MythTV cans use standard and HDTV signals, if you can
> find a supported tuner card for that type of signal.
>
> ..read that somewhere.
>
> -j

Those cable digital channels are OAM modulated which this card can recieve
but to watch them, it has to be NOT encrypted.