OK, a PITA, but my house network is wired, and I could stash these in the closet with my server.ģ) Forced me to Windows 7 and Windows Media Center. This year, COX Cable in Oklahoma City (boo, hiss, they suck and their mommies are all ugly) went 'All Digital' which meant several things:ġ) All analog signals would be discontinued.Ģ) All un-encrypted channels would now be encrypted.ģ) DRM was applied to ALL channels (local, cable like USA and SYFI, and Premium)ġ) Wasn't all bad, the digital versions of the analog channels do look a lot better.Ģ) Forced me to buy 2 Silicon Dust HD Homerun Cable Card machines. Three HTPCs running JRiver and BTV pulled everything from my server and I had the same programming available everywhere in my house.

I developed an 8 tuner DVR on a server and used it for about 7 years. Back then, Beyond TV was a great TV recorder. I've used JRiver for my CDs and movies since v15. My TVs are connected as monitors to Windows 7 PCs, I still don't have any COX Cable boxes in my house. Also, if this is old news, I apologize in advance, I'm new to WMC. When you see WMC, I'm talking about Windows Media Center, JRiver means JRiver's Media Center. This post is about Windows Media Center and JRiver Media Center. Sorry for the confusion & any false hopes. It was playing the non-DRM recordings great. After playing around, I discovered that COX has removed DRM restrictions on the local stations (they applied it across the board when they implemented the 'Going Digital' change, I don't know when they turned DRM off on local stations.) It was a false alarm, files recorded with DRM in place can't be played by JRiver.

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