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Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Flagged Channels For XBMC PVR?
AlphaWolf_HK writes "I own an HDHomeRun Prime tuner, and unfortunately I live in an area where the cable provider (Cox) blanket flags all channels to be copy restricted. I'm tired of using Windows Media Center due to bugs and other problems, but since the channels are flagged it is the only option. Satellite is of course not an option at all (no cablecard or similar standard.) I've already begun moving most of my content watching to XBMC in the form of using sickbeard and couchpotato, both of which do an amazing job even with torrents now that Usenet has been getting hit pretty hard. To match this, I've already dropped my cable tier to the lowest possible for some basic digital channels that people in my household still watch and aren't available over torrents. But ideally I'd like to cut the cord completely as the service is otherwise useless. Are there any options for obtaining this content without physically moving to Comcast territory where they don't do this? Or perhaps any workarounds for the CCI flag? Ideally, anything that allows XBMC with digital content and no transcoding."
Thanks for that post. What would we do without you?
First world problems...
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
I'm not an elitist.
Yes you are. Telling people with a certain hobby that your hobbies are superior to theirs is the very definition of elitist.
Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of telling other people how to live theirs?
Because his real hobby is telling people how much better he is than others.
My hobby is pointing out hypocrites. Of which I am one.