[mythtv-users] Uh-oh... pcHDTV slashdotted
Dan Lanciani
ddl5 at danlan.com
Tue Nov 9 04:33:03 UTC 2004
Wendy Seltzer <wendy at seltzer.com> wrote:
|At 3:51 PM -0500 11/8/04, Paul Kidwell wrote:
|> > -----Original Message-----
|>> From: Yan-Fa Li
|>>
|>> FCC Broadcast flag...
|>>
|>> http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/
|>>
|>> Just say no. Apparently equipment available before the date is
|>> grandfathered in. Therefore the Frenzy to buy pcHDTV :D
|
|Yes, July 1, 2005, is the last date HDTV tuner cards can be
|manufactured without DRM. Pre-flag cards will continue to work as
|they always have, [...]
Of course, that's what they said about pre-flag set top boxes as well. See
my comments in the other thread or:
http://www.samsungusa.com/stb_upgrade/
or ask about MDR-200s. (Are there any other boxes with FireWire out?)
Makes me wonder if they chose the format of the flag to cause problems with
pre-DRM implementations. I hope there isn't anything in the big binary-only
firmware arrays in the pcHDTV drivers that will be similarly affected...
Dan Lanciani
ddl at danlan.*com
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