Does a MythTV-driven digital content capture card exist for use in Canada (Shaw)?
I was never able to find a capture card that worked with digital channels in Canada. The thing is, the card has to be able to decrypt the digital signal, which would require specialty software (or at the very least, specialty hardware, since I’m guessing all the algorithms are different per cable company). I can’t see a company like Shaw (or Rogers, or Telus, or Cogeco) willingly providing something like that when it would mean losing out on cable-box revenue. And the Canadian cable market is much too small for hackers to bother with it. I think the best you could do is crypticgeek’s solution. Many capture cards come with an IR device that plugs into the capture card, and that attaches to the IR receiver on your cable box so that when the software wants to change the channel, it does so on the cable box instead of in the card’s built-in tuner. It’s not a bad solution, really, but it’s not quite as elegant as a built in digital tuner solution.
