[mythtv-users] CableCard???

[Viitasaari]

Lets say that the service providers succeed in providing an end-to-end
encryption scheme and the hardware vendors succeed in providing hardware
to everyone who uses the service providers schemes.

Now the question remains that if I payed for all my services and
purchased all the proper hardware would that not give me the right to
decrypt my system?

This raises the question of whether it is illegal to attempt to break
encryption schemes when you are paying to have it delivered and you are
paying for the hardware to display it.

I think the only way this would stand up in court is if the service
providers and the hardware vendors can prove that their content is
private in nature.

A/V streams from service providers is public in nature!

Hedgehog

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 15:45 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/13/2006 02:53 PM, Adrian Allan wrote:
> > On 11/13/06, Greg Ferreri <gferreri at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> I can't subscribe to any encrypted HDTV channels and expect to be able to
> >> watch them through my Myth box.
> >>     
> > I hooked up the S-Video output of the cable box
> > to my PVR-350 ... when I discovered that I was getting a pretty decent picture
> > when recording from an HD channel.
> And, given time, as technology matures and the price of HDTV-sized-video 
> encoders drop, we'll be able to capture via component after the cable 
> box decodes the signal.  True, you'll have some generational loss, but 
> it will be much better than the "NTSC" loss we get now.
> 
> Of course, this assumes that the lobbyists don't succeed in buying 
> support for their plan to close the "analog hole."
> 
> Mike
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