HDHomeRun + Basic Cable + MythTV

[Marc]

At my apartment, I only have the basic channels (up to 22 or so).  At a 
house, I have expanded, but have not tried the HDHR there.  I have two 
PVR150's at the house and am able to tape everything. 

I don't know about the compression.  My understanding is that the HDHR 
receives the raw MPEG stream and just sends it to the server.  There is 
not encoding like the analog cards.

mooooooo at avenues.org wrote:
> On 2/5/08, chip33az at netscape.net <chip33az at netscape.net> wrote:
>   
>> I have basic cable, but read on this list and other places that I could
>> get HD from it (which worked).
>>     
>
> I just did a whole MythTV setup too but then discovered that the
> expanded channels (22-99) in Tempe require a box.  In my last place
> expanded was delivered as analog.  Ticks me off that I spent so much
> building a DVR and suddenly it was rendered useless.
>
> A couple questions.   Do you have the cox expanded channels and can
> the HDHomeRun decode them?  Does it do compression of the streams so
> the DVR doesn't have to do it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>