[mythtv-users] New ATI Tuner that supports Cablecard

Preston Crow pc-mythtv05c at crowcastle.net
Thu Jan 5 17:15:36 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:10 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote:
> 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....

Most likely the card will only send out encrypted video using
Microsoft's DRM system.  I doubt we'll be very effective in getting
these cards to work with Linux unless someone completely cracks that
DRM.

It would be nice, but I'm not terribly optimistic at this point.

--PC



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