Ubuntu TV hands-on at CES 2012
Posted Jan 12, 2012, 12:29 AM UTC
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"Full-on media center" interesting, XBMC style? Can't wait til i can install it without screwing up my existing unity 2d session
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I highly doubt this would work with a cablecard at best it would only allow TV capture of shows labeled "copy freely" (similar to how the hd homerun prime operates with MythTV). To enable full support of a CableCard requires that every device and software in the recording chain be certified as enforcing the copy protection mandated by the software. This will never happen to purely open source software as the DRM will have to be closed for security reasons.
tl;dr does not and will not fully support cablecards if they want it to be purely opensource.
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CableCard is coming to MythTV with the InfiniTV 4. 0.24 can already be patched to support the hardware.
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