[mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 17:10:44 UTC 2006


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


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