[mythtv-users] SiliconDust to Announce CableCard Product at CES [RUMOR]

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Thu Jan 7 15:45:45 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Johnny <jarpublic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Pretty much exactly what we expected, though there was that tiny
>>> glimmer of hope in my head that is now once again crushed....mostly.
>>> There's still that possibility that, depending on how well this was
>>> all engineered, someone can figure out a way to make linux pretend to
>>> be Windows 7.
>>
>> From what I understand the cable labs relaxed things now, so that only
>> stuff that is flagged by the broadcaster (or by a trigger happy cable
>> provider) will get DRM. The rest of the files will be DRM free.
>
> So it will be just like firewire recording today.

But potentially less troublesome to get working than firewire. At
least, I get the impression for users its hard for many of them to set
up firewire recording, since it Just Works(tm) here... ;)

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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