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I hope you succeed. Although I am in Canada, we tend to follow along with what happens in the US in terms of Standards.

I'm still a user of OTA tv, and use HDHomeRun with TVHeadEnd on a NAS to record any shows I like. This definitely would affect me down the road.

I still hold a grudge against Rogers (back when I had cable), when I recorded a bunch of sports from the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and liked watching them on the go. The Rogers PVR, I think it was the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300 HD PVR, had a firewire port, and my old macbook had a firewire port. With that, you could play your content from the PVR, and recorded it directly onto your computer as a .ts (transport stream) and then convert it to a smaller file.

Then of course, without my permission, they pushed a firmware upgrade and wiped all my recordings before I could get them off. Jerks.