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[Cliff Free]

I didn't mean to appear confident (sanguine, for the braniacs out  there)
about the CableCARD thing.  I said "could" just meaning that it's possible.
I, like you, fear that the Cable/Satellite companies will continue to
operate with the FUD-driven and influenced attitude they do now.  On a
different note, it bewilders me that so many companies have jumped on the
DRM bandwagon when, as a security mechanism, it's fundamentally flawed.  I
mean, they give an "attacker" the encrypted data AND the key for decrypting
it.  That's like day one cryptography stuff... just bad design.

On 3/16/06, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I sure hope that you are right about the development of a PCI CableCARD
> for Linux. I'm much less -- uhm -- sanguine about the prospects.
> "Cable/satellite companies" and the Open Source community might not see eye
> to eye on the DMR. But wow! if such a card did exist, it would be great.
>
> http://slashdot.org/articles/05/11/16/205230.shtml
>
> "The reason that Microsoft is able to get a license for Vista to support
> CableCard+DTCP compliant hardware for the PC is because they are willing to
> put in the DRM required by the DTLA, a la "Trusted" Computing. No
> open-source solution will ever be able to get this license, because the
> content companies decree it to be so..."
>
>
> On 3/16/06, Cliff Free <brd at alumni.clemson.edu > wrote:
>
> > MythTV would have the ability to be a one-box solution if
> > cable/satellite companies would allow PC DVR cards on their network instead
> > of limiting things to their proprietary system. (This is something Congress
> > and the FCC is fighting against in an effort to create more competition.)
> > DRM is really hurting MythTV in this respect, because it's the security FUD
> > that keeps the providers in this mind-frame.  The only ability that a
> > cable/satellite DVR / DVD / one-box solution has that a mythtv box doesn't
> > is the ability to decode the encryption of their signal.  Everything else is
> > there in the mythtv box (and more).  You can record to Hard-disk, DVD,
> > TRANSCODE to divx, xvid, mpeg4, etc. to save HD space, encode and save
> > music, get weather reports, and even browse the web.  All of that being
> > said, CableCARD could really help mythTV.  Then, instead of needing
> > Comcast's set-top-box, all you need is their card which allows your
> > CableCARD compliant hardware to decode their signal.  The drawback is that
> > you'd need some sort of CableCARD Reader card for your PC, eating-up yet
> > another slot.
> >
> > On 3/16/06, Christopher Fowler < cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:38 -0400, Cliff Free wrote:
> > > > That being said, I'm using Comcast's HD-DVR on the big TV, because
> > > > I've been to lazy to set all of this up.
> > >
> > > But you can record to DVD-R.  To mean having a good working DVR that
> > > can
> > > get my shows all the time is more important than writing to disk.  I
> > > have no DVR but a friend has the Dish version and I've been amazed at
> > > how the integration is.  The receiver is the DVR.
> > >
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