And I would take that bet. It's interesting to me that you're arguing a point about which you have no personal experience.
I'm not talking about some fringe group of MythTV users that would complain. A lot of HD sets made today have built in digital tuners. As such, those TV's are capable of receiving uncencrypted QAM right out of the box. That's how I watched HD for the first six months after I bought my TV. The guy that sold me the TV told me I could just plug in to regular cable and get HD. I already knew that, but it just goes to show I'm not the only one.
Ultimately you're making statements based on guesses and hearsay. Get a digital tuner and prove me wrong. Until then I consider this conversation over.
I didn't get lucky. It's the law, plain and simple. And you're totally wrong about cable boxes. My cable company charges an extra $5 a month for an HD cable box. Why would I pay $5 for something they're required to provide for free? The only reason for me to have a box is if I want to pay an exorbitant amount of money for a digital package that has a bunch of channels I don't watch. Long story short, a lot of people have HDTV's, they just want basic or expanded basic cable, and they expect to get HD channels with that. If the cable company stopped broadcasting unencrypted QAM they'd have hundreds of complaints.
The only point you have is manually mapping channels. That's the reason it took me a couple hours to set up QAM. I had to use dvbscan to get a list of channels, and then manually check each one to determine what they were. I went through about 100 channels before I found the pertinent ones.
Umm...did you read what I wrote? QAM took a couple hours to set up and works perfectly. Hardly voodoo. All of my HD recordings are made with QAM and they work 100% of the time.
Voodoo? Please don't comment about things you know nothing about.
For all of $75 you can get yourself a Kworld ATSC-110 tuner card that will in fact tune HDTV. That includes OTA broadcasts (ATSC) and cable brodcasts (QAM). It's fully supported in recent kernels and takes just minutes to set up in MythTV with ATSC. QAM is a little more difficult, but still only took a couple hours. In the last week I've recorded a couple dozen hours of flawless HD from different broadcast channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, WB).
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I'm not talking about some fringe group of MythTV users that would complain. A lot of HD sets made today have built in digital tuners. As such, those TV's are capable of receiving uncencrypted QAM right out of the box. That's how I watched HD for the first six months after I bought my TV. The guy that sold me the TV told me I could just plug in to regular cable and get HD. I already knew that, but it just goes to show I'm not the only one.
Ultimately you're making statements based on guesses and hearsay. Get a digital tuner and prove me wrong. Until then I consider this conversation over.
The only point you have is manually mapping channels. That's the reason it took me a couple hours to set up QAM. I had to use dvbscan to get a list of channels, and then manually check each one to determine what they were. I went through about 100 channels before I found the pertinent ones.
Umm...did you read what I wrote? QAM took a couple hours to set up and works perfectly. Hardly voodoo. All of my HD recordings are made with QAM and they work 100% of the time.
For all of $75 you can get yourself a Kworld ATSC-110 tuner card that will in fact tune HDTV. That includes OTA broadcasts (ATSC) and cable brodcasts (QAM). It's fully supported in recent kernels and takes just minutes to set up in MythTV with ATSC. QAM is a little more difficult, but still only took a couple hours. In the last week I've recorded a couple dozen hours of flawless HD from different broadcast channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, WB).