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

Peter Loron peterl at standingwave.org
Tue Jan 12 00:26:43 UTC 2010


On Jan 7, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> 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... ;)
> 
> -- 
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
> _______________________________________________

I spoke briefly with the SD folks at CES (have the flyer in by bag, so I don't have details handy). Basically the product is coming out in later 2010. Currently targeted at Windows only, but the guy said they're working with Cable Labs to see what they can do on Linux.

-Pete


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