<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 3:25 PM, James Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gajs-f0el@dea.spamcon.org" target="_blank">gajs-f0el@dea.spamcon.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Eric Sharkey wrote:<br>
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Those were for OTA only. For cable, you need to get one from your<br>
cable provider.<br>
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No, that's not correct. There's no DRM on the analog output of either<br>
an STB or DTA. You can re-digitize it just fine. This is sometimes<br>
referred to as "the analog hole" since the trip from digital to analog<br>
and back to digital removes the DRM.<br>
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Thanks for the clarification, Eric. That's what I suspected--namely, that without a cable-company-supplied/<u></u>registered device (with accompanying rental cost), there will be no viewing/recording of content. So the "analog hole," which could otherwise work for me since I am not fixated on HD, could only be taken advantage of by renting TWC (in my case) equipment. If there's not something I could buy for a one-time cost to do this with, I won't be interested. And I doubt there would be since I helped a couple residents of my complex install and set up their cable-company-supplied devices and realize there is a registration process. No doubt they will only register/authorize equipment supplied by them.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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