Quote Originally Posted by NZMarke View Post
How do you grab EPG data for Myth? Is there a similar service to the one that we use for TiVo?
Somebody out there generates files daily in a format that mythtv can import. It's all automated, so it's a similar process.
Goggle of mythtv and nz
There also a NZ based mailing list.
http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz

Quote Originally Posted by NZMarke View Post
And interested to know what's the limitation with recording HD Sky .. is that an encoding issue (i.e. the HD signal can't be decoded) or simply a limitation of your specific h/w setup.
With Mythtv you can record Freeview the raw format. It it just dumps the MPEG4 that is transmitted to disk. You get HD from DVB-T/UHF and SD from DVB-S/Satellite.
Sky is encrypted so you use the same method as the Tivo, but MySky only puts out HD over HDMI which is HDCP encrypted.
Component output of a MySky is SD only. So you can only get SD.