> Why does the flag matter to us myth users ? (in terms of > hardware selection) >
I am sure you will get many other good reasons from others. The problem would be that the tuner that decodes the signal would only be able to pass the decoded signal to licensed display devices over a secure communications path. The main intent of the law was to make it so that computers would never be able to decode the signal since the bus on a computer is not a secure path and its unlikely a company like nVidia would be able to get a video card approved as a secure display device. Now all this would not stop someone from creating a device that took the analog output (PbY or rgb-hv) and reencoded it in another format that the computer could understand. They are willing to let that happen as its a degraded signal. Of course if you make too good of a re-encoder you will probably get harrased to death by the MPAA legal goons for enabling unsavory (read profit reducing) activities.
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