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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Lol – my sentiments exactly when I
met with Cablelabs and they point blank said they wouldn’t provide me the
development api’s for my <a href="http://www.cognation.net/cablecard3"><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>www.cognation.net/cablecard3</span></font></a>
project.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Basically even things like serial ports
they wanted nailed down forget about linux as an OS.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>My answer to them was fine, F#&*
yourselves and I’ll build something in a few years time once we no longer
use cable as the medium. Since then I’ve been working with Akimbo and a
few other similar companies to encourage this ip delivered video and once
Cablelabs are nothing but an historic memory I’ll try again.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Dean<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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> This looks very sweet and hopefully won't be too difficult for some decent<br>
> developers to get working with Linux and Myth. (However, I suspect there<br>
> will be some nasty DRM somewhere)<br>
> <br>
> <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662">http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2662</a><br>
<br>
you won't be able to license use of cablecards without "proven" DRM
which is <br>
why only <st1:place w:st="on">Vista</st1:place> will support it (cause MS paid
enough money to convince them<br>
<st1:place w:st="on">Vista</st1:place> has solid DRM support).<br>
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--<br>
Steve<br>
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