<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">> On 8/4/2010 14:03, Donald J. Organ IV wrote:<br>> > <a href="http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo2_family/mxo2_mini/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(28, 81, 168); ">http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mac/mxo2_family/mxo2_mini/</a><br>
><br>> Why bother? It's $450 for just the capture box, or $850 if you want the<br>> hardware H264 encoder card. The HDPVR retails for $200 and goes down<br>> from there.<br>><br>>It will capture HDMI, which the HDPVR won't do, so it might be useful to someone with extra money. I think it's still<br>
>cheaper than the HD Fury.<br>><br>>I'm not sure how it deals with HDCP (or doesn't).<br>><br>>The HDPVR will fail when they finally implement selective output control, so we do have to keep our eyes open for<br>
>alternatives, but this looks to be too pricey, for me at least.<br></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">></span></div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">I think you might be confused on what selective output control actually applies to. Selective output control was only approved for movies that are going to be shown on TV while they are still also in theaters. Cable/satellite companies are not allowed to use SOC for anything other than that. SOC was not approved to all of a sudden block you from being able to watch your regular (or even premium) channels over whatever output you want. It applies to content that isn't even available yet from any provider, it was put in place for future offerings and pay per view type movies that are not yet out on video or licensed to another channel/provider to show on TV (and possible special PPV sporting events but I don't remember that one exactly).</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">That being said, once SOC is put into practice it would only stop you from recording something you currently can't record anyway because the content isn't even available anywhere besides illegal sources. Of course at that point you could just get an HD Fury ($200-400) and still record the content, but that is besides the point.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Originally they wanted to use SOC to block anything and everything they could, but that is not how it was actually approved. And lets face it, by the time they actually start offering movies on demand that are still in theaters, there will probably be some pretty nice HDMI capture cards anyway.</span></font></div>
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