Re: Appeals court strikes down "anti-piracy" code requirements for broadcasters
wcb
> But, it turns out, the broadcast industry didn't like the requirement
> and never used it anyway.
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/digital_piracy_tech/nc:1212
Well hooray. Though its still too soon to tell, the RIAA types
still have oodles of money for lawyers, appeals and bribes. Such
as it is, I did buy a pchdtv card ( www.pchdtv.com )
to make sure I have a Linux HDTV card for the future without
RIAA mandated DRM crap. This with such Linux software as Myth
TV will give me a fully HDTV capable card able to record most
anything, no copy flag or not.
For the 8 SubGenii still working, it might be wise still
to consider this. Supposedly, next year, free TV as we know it ends.
You'll have to go to HDTV or buy a desktop set to convert HDTV signals
to old TV format just too watch too many commercials and
Star Trek reruns. Or cable if you still don't have $3000 +
for a real HDTV. Remember, not all such HDTVs really art,
either. And this card will allow me to record HDTV to a Linux
system PVR. I suspect that most such commercial HDTV gear from like
Sony or Panasonic et al will have DRM stuff even if not legally mandated,
and other lessor manufactors will find it hard to buy licenses to
necessary stuff to build eqipment without including it.
We are not out of the hot water yet.
--
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Cheerful Charlie
frater S.O.D.D.I.
"Supposedly, next year, free TV as we know it ends.
You'll have to go to HDTV or buy a desktop set to convert HDTV signals
to old TV format just too watch too many commercials and
Star Trek reruns. Or cable if you still don't have $3000 +
for a real HDTV."
Naw....isn't gonna happen.
The b'casters are just gonna get a 6-8 year extension on the phase-over
window.
And why not? They got 2 free-quencies now in each of their markets and
they ain't gonna want to just GIVE one of 'em back... even if that was
the HDTV deal in the first place.
On one of them HDTV bands you can broadcast 4 SDTV channels.
HellPope Huey
>
> And why not? They got 2 free-quencies now in each of their markets and
> they ain't gonna want to just GIVE one of 'em back... even if that was
> the HDTV deal in the first place.
>> On one of them HDTV bands you can broadcast 4 SDTV channels.
So does that mean I will still be able to watch 'Robot Chicken' on the
Cartoon Channel on 2010 or not?
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HellPope Huey
DON'T PANIC!!!
Okay, NOW you can panic.
Well hell,
how long did you expect me to hold it in?
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