So is this just going to be another region-coding like affair where 'people' release cracked firmware or just press a few magic button sequences on their remote to remove this protection? And what about those vendors who sell DVRs that have community contributed plugins (e.g. like Topfield did/does); that's just going to make a mockery of this mockworthy content protection.
- Phil On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 18:21 +0100, Mo McRoberts wrote: > On 14-Jun-2010, at 18:14, Alex Cockell wrote: > > > So i'll have to buy box after box to watch content? > > doubtful. those which have been sold for FVHD already will have in-built > support for the mechanism (it's specced by the ETSI DVB standards), but will > likely need an update to get the decoding table. > > that is, unless they're going to use the same decoding table as Freesat > (given the fact that it was claimed to have been generated from a large > sample set in order to ensure optimal compression rates, it _should_ be)… > > M. > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
