| From: David Collier-Brown <davec-b@rogers.com> | Done any of the media centres come with logic for driving an external digital | box? I use Rogers, and they're slowly moving all the free channels onto | encrypted digital., so despite them being "free", they're only available via | the Rogers digital box. This is an excellent question. Rogers is dropping analog a bit at a time. At our house, they've dropped all channels above 20 except for 26 (old NewsWorld) and several things below 20. Rogers really wants you to use their PVR. Inferior to MythTV is so many ways. Some people use IR blasters to let MythTV switch channels on Rogers set-top boxes. That always seemed nasty to me, mostly because it seems unreliable. Because it is "open loop" the computer has no way of knowing if it worked. Lennart's MythTV setup used to use firewire with Rogers boxes, but that became encrypted or worse, so he stopped. But I suspect that it could still be used for more reliable channel changing. I just never got around to investigating. At some point we may drop Rogers and just go "over the top". Since we are pretty careful to only do authorized things (i.e. no piracy), we'll still be subject to the indignity and inconvenience of arbitrary platforms. Where you live you should be able to get reasonable amount of stuff over the air (HD Digital, no DRM). Not an option for us.