I worked with both legacy Charter and TWC with the Prime (now Spectrum). I always used a tuning adapter (TA) with legacy Charter, because once in a while they would flip a switch on their end and it screwed up a channel on my end (maybe once every 18 months, not very often). I dialed in a system where it was just standard to have the TA - didn't cost a penny and I had 2 primes and 2 TA's.
By the way, congrats for being in the legacy Charter market, it's the gravy train with regard to having TV marked as copy-freely (instead of copy-once like most of the old TWC stuff).
Thanks! Spectrum told me over and over that my lineup won't see DRM. We think it's because my package is a-la-carte. I only see what I subscribe to. I don't even see other channels that only show a black screen. I don't see them in my subscription list at all. Plus with only 15 channels. What is the point of DRM. BUT, if they do DRM I have TVE setup too for recording. This is a stopgap for ABC and a few other OTA ones I couldn't get otherwise. My Channels lineup looks crazy anyway. I have like 5 CBS's. 2 ABC's, etc...
I'm not sure that everyone agrees on what DRM is, but I believe that you have a cable-card to bypass the first level of DRM; encryption. You cable card decrypts the stream and let's you have it.
There is another level of DRM that you can read about here:
The CCI flag is where things get sticky. Anyone with a cablecard and a paid subscription gets a pass on the encryption, but systems vary on how they treat the CCI flag. That's the difference between old Charter and TWC/Brighthouse, the CCI flag. I'm currently with old Time Warner Cable, now Spectrum, so I get a pass on the encryption with a cable card, by everything but my local affiliates are CCI flagged for copy-once, so an HDHomeRun Prime is of no use for those channels (without some serious workarounds). Unless you've decided to go full TVE, you require copy-freely, not copy-once to be useful.
I'm sure this has been described at least 100 times previous to this post, so I apologize for repeating it, but it's a clarification that makes a big difference in the end result.
I'm Legacy Charter/Spectrum. I guess the CCI/DRM Flag I "MIGHT" get a pass on. Or it might come up later when I add the Tuning Adapter, or it just might show up in the channel list. I'm in TVE all the way anyhow. I was recording, and setup with TVE LONG before I got the Prime+CableCard. I got it for the locals mainly. If I get CCI/DRM free streams to Channels, then that's just gravy.
Does anyone know where the DRM comes from with a CableCard setup? I don’t currently have a Tuning Adapter. My channels do not have DRM. The adapter is on its way. My concern is that connecting it will trigger DRM? Is this a valid concern, or is DRM something it would have already had, tuning adapter or not?
DRM is set on the broadcast. As noted earlier you're in a legacy Charter market without DRM. It's not going to randomly become DRM unless they make a change explicitly.
