[mythtv-users] FCC releases CableCard changes

[jedi]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:43:12PM -0400, Steven Adeff 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"...

   This is as much an issue for Tivo and MCE users as it is for us. This is 
2010: Who wants their content to be trapped in the device that recorded it
only accessable to the singular TV that happens to be attached to that device?

   Those DRM flags are why I am in no rush to flee from DTV for another cable
service that I could use a blessed 3rd party solution for. Even if Linux had
CC support as good as Microsoft's, there would still be the problem of copy
flags and moving recordings between devices.