[mythtv-users] FCC releases CableCard changes

[Brian Wood]

On Friday, October 15, 2010 01:45:14 pm Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> >>> On 10/15/2010 15:25, Phil Bridges wrote:
> >>>> Anybody care to pontificate on how this affects a MythTV / CableCard
> >>>> collaboration?
> >>> 
> >>> None at all.  The release deals with the availability, pricing, and
> >>> installation of customer owned CableCard hardware.  It makes no mention
> >>> on access restrictions on content made available through CableCard
> >>> devices.
> >>> 
> >>> You'll be able to lease a card, and have a tech that is properly
> >>> trained on how to install it, but you're still going to be limited to
> >>> the 'copy freely' content.
> >> 
> >> As it is, I'd be happy to get a 3- or 4-tuner Linux-compatible
> >> CableCard box that could tune "copy freely" content.
> > 
> > except nothing will be set to "copy freely"...
> 
> Not in my case.

Really? What planet do you live on? I might like to move there.

You only need a CableCard for encrypted content, I can't imagine anything labeled as "copy freely" that the cable 
companies would bother encrypting. They might just as well put it out as clear QAM.