[mythtv-users] prebuilt pvrs for developers benefit?

[Michael T. Dean]

Bill Chmura wrote:

>On Tuesday 04 May 2004 01:54 pm, Jack Burghardt wrote:
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>>How big market is for windows XP media center?
>>Mythtv box would replace tivo, dvd player (with all advanced functions )
>>gaming console (put sony or xbox emulation ) .
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>The gaming console would be a whole legal snafu alone!  There is only a few 
>public domain games out there.
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And, of course, there's the whole issue of whether the customer has to 
pay for his or her own international travel...

At least when trying to offer classes in the US, the DMCA (or, more 
precisely, the MPAA, the DVD Forum, and the DMCA) becomes a big problem 
when trying to incorporate an "advanced functionality" DVD player 
because of the Content Scrambling System (CSS) used by most (all?) 
commercial DVD's.  Remember, it's a federal felony offense to create, 
distribute, and/or *USE* any technology that circumvents encryption 
methods in place to protect copyrighted material.  (No one out there is 
playing commercial DVD's on their Myth boxes, are they?)  It doesn't 
look very professional to have a public class raided by federal 
marshalls--and it tends to scare away future customers through 
word-of-mouth advertising.

Mike