On Thursday 05 January 2006 11:51, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > On Thursday 05 January 2006 9:35, Steve Adeff wrote: > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 09:19, Joe Huffner wrote: > > > If someone already posted this, sorry for the dupe. I saw this at > > > work > > > and I don't have access to my home email and I wanted to post this > > > asap. > > > > > > This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some > > > decent > > > developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect > > > there > > > will be some nasty DRM somewhere) > > > > > > http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662 > > > > you won't be able to license use of cablecards without "proven" DRM > > which is > > why only Vista will support it (cause MS paid enough money to convince > > them > > Vista has solid DRM support). > > Ummm.... unless ATI has built DRM directly into their card/device (i.e., > making it impossible for an open source Linux driver to be developed), > then the only way this wouldn't (eventually) work under other OSes > would be if ATI (or OEMs) were denied a license to develop hardware > based on this design using the CableCard APIs, protocols or whatever. > > Other than that, if the card is manufactured (and it might only be OEM > for WinMCE PCs, but that's what eBay is for...) then I don't think your > cable company can legally refuse to give you a CableCard to plug into > it. And, since it's only CableCard 1.0, I don't think there's any way > they could selectively disable just those receivers without obsoleting > their entire installed CableCard base. > > Am I way off base in this? > > -JAC
no, your right, once the CableCard tuner-cards are out in the wild anyone with the expertise to write drivers for linux very well could. I imagine it would take some time for it all to happen, at which point they might be on to some new method of preventing themselves from having to create a new business model.... -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
