On Friday 25 February 2005 15:07, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:02:24PM -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 25 February 2005 09:11, Ian Forde wrote: > > Ditto, $6.95/mo more here. The FCC doc only applies if you already > > have an > > HDTV-capable cable box without a FireWire port and request one with. > > They get > > to charge you if all you have is a digital cable box. There's no > > requirement > > that a plain digital cable box have a FireWire port on it. > > I suppose I should go read the FCC regs (they are always such a joy) > but > wasn't somebody saying that technically, they can reduce the 1394 to > SDTV > resoution? Seems like an odd thing to require it on HD boxes if > that's so.
The regs say that they *can't* down-res local broadcast channels carried over cable. According to the published regs, the FCC has yet to rule (unless that ruling is in a later document) on whether down-resolution is permissible for non-broadcast stations. Until such a determination is made, down-resolution is permissible for non-broadcast stations, and indeed may even be required by the 5C/DTCP license(s). (Incidentally, one of the paragraphs regarding down-resolution in the DTCP license is here (paragraph 5.1): http://www.dtcp.com/data/DTCP_Content_Participant010730.pdf If someone cares to read it and translate into plain English... it's making my head spin trying to decipher the legalese. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
