[mythtv-users] Is it legal to archive and collect episodes?

[Brad Templeton]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:18:28PM -0500, Sean Cier wrote:
> Brad Templeton wrote:
> >
> >If the flag is
> >set, you have protected content.   A tuner is forbidden from handing
> >protected content in digital form to a device that is not "trusted"
> >to further honor the protection.
> >
> >Some things you can do:
> [...]
> >    e) Put out digital audio, but at no better than CD quality
> 
> Please say this isn't true.  Is this seriously part of the FCC mandate?  
> Are they seriously going to obselete nearly every receiver out there with 
> DD/AC-3 and DTS support?  This has got to be an installed base comparable 
> to -- maybe great than -- even the current sum total of HDTV owners!

Sorry, I was copying another article I read which said this.  The
actual regulation does allow AC-3.   The quality limit is 48,000 khz
(they really mean samples per second I think) at 16 bits/sample.

So your existing AC-3 equipment is fine.

However, the killing of DVI is indeed in the spec -- no DVI over 720x480x
30fps.