[mythtv-users] Is satellite/cable HDTV possible w/ MythTV, or alternatives?

Chris Ribe chrisribe at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 04:51:11 UTC 2006


Have you ever tried hooking a cable box up to a computer monitor with a DVI
cable?

Did it work?  No?

That's the copy protection in action.


On 1/15/06, Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/15/06, Chris Ribe <chrisribe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  HDMI/DVI/Component in? I mean, seriously, is
> > >  it that hard (That's a serious question, not rhetorical)? As I
> > >  understand it, the signal is still a digital stream. Is the stream
> > >  not compressed, thus requiring the card to recompress it?
> >
> >  HDMI and DVI-D are copy protected.  Component is impractically high
> > bandwidth analog.
>
> DVI-D and HDMI are *NOT* copy protected. Yet. They are too high a
> bandwidth to cope with encoding at the moment, however. HDCP is the
> (Proposed) system for copy-protecting content over a HDMI link, but as
> of yet there is no manufacturer who has added support (As to do so
> would break support for current equipment), and Windows Vista is the
> only software system known of so far to support it, which is not even
> out of beta yet.
> --
> Robert "Anaerin" Johnston
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