[olug] Myth TV / Cox Digital Box questions etc

[Shawn Mattingly]

No you can get an HD box w/o DVR for ~$5 a month.  Or you can go 
CableCard.  To the best of my knowledge there is no shipping cablecard 
tuner solution for a PC based DVR yet.

Will Langford wrote:
>> that I should expect 100 HD channels from them at some point in the near
>> future (probably a substantial chunk of them premium).  I don't know
>>     
>
> Intriguing.  I noted SCIFI had HD banners this weekend.  If there's a
> serious bump in HD channels, then I might have to retract my previous
> statements about HD not being of interest heh.
>
> I believe... to get HD from Cox you have to have their DVR, no ?
>
> I hope not.  My DVR is a year and half old and very finicky (dieing
> HDD, i'm too busy to take it in and get it replaced).... it'll stall
> on live TV and reboot every so often, sometimes with a rash of a
> reboot every 5 minutes for hours on end :(.
>
> -Will
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