pcHDTV and Fedora 7?

[Tom Horsley]

Anyone successfully using a HD-5500 card from
http://www.pchdtv.com/ on Fedora 7?

Been thinking about giving it a try, but
thought I should look for success stories
first :-).

(This would be on an x86_64 dual core AMD system).

Or maybe I'll wait a while and see if they come
out with a cable card compatible version so I
can watch encrypted channels too...

[Development discussions related to Fedora]

Tom Horsley wrote:
>  Anyone successfully using a HD-5500 card from
>  http://www.pchdtv.com/ on Fedora 7?
>  
>  Been thinking about giving it a try, but
>  thought I should look for success stories
>  first :-).
>  
>  (This would be on an x86_64 dual core AMD system).
>  
>  Or maybe I'll wait a while and see if they come
>  out with a cable card compatible version so I
>  can watch encrypted channels too... 
Did you check out:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/

If you give it a try and have notes to add - I think they encourage that.

DaveT.

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 02 July 2007, David Timms wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Anyone successfully using a HD-5500 card from
> > http://www.pchdtv.com/ on Fedora 7?
> >
> > Been thinking about giving it a try, but
> > thought I should look for success stories
> > first :-).
> > 
It should work ok, I've been using a pcHDTV-3000 since back in FC2 days,
and 
it has generally worked very well.

> > (This would be on an x86_64 dual core AMD system).
> >
> > Or maybe I'll wait a while and see if they come
> > out with a cable card compatible version so I
> > can watch encrypted channels too...
>  
That is NOT gonna happen as that cable specific encryption is their 'vendor 
lock-in' & is considered as a non-negotiable theft preventative measure.

> Did you check out:
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/
>
> If you give it a try and have notes to add - I think they encourage that.
>
> DaveT. 


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[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:24:44 -0400
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett(a)verizon.net&gt; wrote:

>  >> Or maybe I'll wait a while and see if they come
>  >> out with a cable card compatible version so I
>  >> can watch encrypted channels too...  
>  >  
>  That is NOT gonna happen as that cable specific encryption is their 'vendor 
>  lock-in' & is considered as a non-negotiable theft preventative measure. 
Yea, but as of July 1st the FCC rules went into effect mandating
that consumers should be able to own their own cable boxes and
just get a cable card for the encryption and authorization bit.
This is all supposed to be standardized now, so it should be possible
for vendors to turn out TV cards that have cable card slots in them
(in theory :-).