TV Tuner Cards and Cox Communications

[storkus at storkus.com]

I don't have Cox here, but I do have a couple of devices that--as far as
ATSC--seem to work well.  Both are Hauppauge and are the HVR-950Q (NTSC
is NOT supported under Linux yet for this, and may not ever be from what
I've heard) and the HVR-1950, where everything is supported.  Since QAM
is done via the same chip as the ATSC, if one works so should the other.
 Note the HVR-950 is NOT the same as the 950Q--the Q uses a different
chipset (hence the driver problem) because the 950-no-suffix doesn't
support QAM in the hardware.

Of course, if you had the $$$, the nerd way of doing it would be to use
GNU Radio and the software radio board (I can't remember the name off
the top of my head).

Note that all of these only support clear QAM and are USB (I wanted them
to work with my laptop as well as a desktop); I don't know if Cox's
channels are all clear.

One final thing: there seems to be a bug in the PVRUSB2 driver when
switching between digital and analog; I've been waiting, but am working
with Mike Isely, the developer, on it. (The HVR-1950 uses this driver.)

Hope this helps.

Mike

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:59:44 -0700, "Anthony Boynes" <aboynes at gmail.com>
said:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Francis Earl <francis.earl at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I recall there was a presentation done about MythTV in one of the West
> > Side LUG meetings, so maybe someone can help me with this?
> >
> > I have tried two different cards now - both via cx88 module
> > coincidentally. Pinnacle PCTV HD and Hauppage WinTV-DVR-1250 are the
> > cards, and of course I had similar results: I can watch TV via the
> > S-Video signal via the cable box using TVTime perfectly fine - this of
> > course makes DVR functionality rather difficult however.
> >
> > My question is, has anyone had any better luck with Cox and their TV
> > Card? I only have around $80-90 to spend, else I'd go with the pcHDTV
> > HD-5500, but even then it seems to only support unencrypted HD. I am
> > unsure whether Cox even uses encryption as the tech support wasn't
> > terribly enlightening, so I'm wondering what you all think?
> >
> > Have you had any luck using a TV card on Linux with Cox Cable? Can you
> > make any recommendations for cards I should try that are within my price
> > range?
> >
> > Any feedback would be much appreciate, and happy belated holidays  :)
> >
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> 
> 
> Just realized you were looking for an HD card, which mine is not.  I
> haven't
> looked into that at all.
> 
> 
> Anthony