On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Robert McNamara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.mcnamara@gmail.com">robert.mcnamara@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey all,<br>
<br>
Though I hate to be a bearer of bad news, the FCC made a decision<br>
yesterday to permit cable MSOs to turn on the limited encryption on<br>
their "DTA" boxes. This has some fairly far-reaching implications.<br>
To put it simply, it permits the cable companies to roll out low cost<br>
analog terminal adapters and lock down all the unencrypted QAM<br>
(besides, possibly, the local broadcasts). </blockquote><div><br>This is going to make me sad... My cable provider recently switched all of their 'expanded basic' cable to unencrypted QAM. And I bought an HDHomeRun to take advantage of that and ditched the use of my analog capture card.<br>
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