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Old 04-12-2007, 12:40 AM
Bennyhill Bennyhill is offline
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Trying to decide how to upgrade My HD Channels

OK, I have been doing a lot of reading about HD and BTV since the new release of 4.6.1. I see the the HD is very complicated compared to SD when it comes to HTPC's.

I have a few questions I can't seem to find the answer to.(simple I hope)

1.
The new version says it supports the Hdhomerun qam device, does this mean it also supports the divco qam devices out of the box, or do I still need an addon?

2.
I understand that if I use a qam tuner It will only get the unencrypted channels. If I go ahead and get the HD Tuner box from my cableco, and hook it up via firewire and BTV Exterminator will that get ALL of the HD content, including the encrypted channels? (since the tuner box will decrypt them)

3.
Where is the best place to find what unecrypted qam channels my cableco is offering. I don't want to go to this trouble if I am only adding one or two channels of HD over my current HD-OTA.

Hope I am not being to much of a noob here, so thanks in advance.

Ben
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