[mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

Jason Werpy jwwerpy at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 14:43:58 UTC 2006


On 1/5/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> 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).
>
> --
> Steve
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I thought the whole point behind the cablecard thing was that the DRM was in
the cablecard.  Why would the OS have to provide DRM?  Wouldn't that make
cablecard really meaningless?
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