[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun Prime up for pre-order at Amazon

[Tom Bongiorno]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
> wrote:
> > These copy protection flags are the same ones that restrict users
> > presently recording shows over firewire.
>
> I don't believe that is correct. I am pretty sure that Firewire's
> Digital Transmission Content Protection and Cablecard's Copy Control
> Information schemes are separate schemes that don't necessarily match
> up. If you have a cablecard-based cable box, then it could possibly
> generate the firewire setup based on what cablecard CCI flags are set
> (not sure if that would depend on the cable company's implementation,
> or the way the cable box is designed). However, I don't think that is
> guaranteed to be true. My understanding is that it is possible to have
> firewire restricted while cablecard is copy-freely, or vice versa. How
> often that happens, I have no idea.
>
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> Ron Frazier
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I think that 5C, CCI, and DTCP are all the same thing.  They all apply to
Firewire and CableCard.  The confusion may arise from the fact
that multiple acronyms are used to refer to the same thing and it was
originally only in place for Firewire.

http://www.hdtvprimer.com/#DTCP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control_Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTCP
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