[mythtv] PVR 250 & Linux vs Windows PVRs

[Ramon Roca]

Well, maybe it's politics...
If they are allowed to, the boradcasters have a clear commercial
interest in providing their own devices to their ppv subscribers, since
then they know what they can wath, and very likely also block
competitors: who will be interested in have a separate box at home for
each provider?
Makes sense to provide a box to subscribers to make things easier, but
not creating propietary formats.
What I can't understand is that having regulator authorities for almost
every type of transmission types, why those tactics are allowed?
It's not just a matter of providing order or standards in this case,
it's much more that that, it's about avoiding monopolistic practices
from multimedia giants and and protecting freedom of choice while
accessing multimedia contents.
Given the impact and power that the media has today over the people... 


On dv, 2003-11-14 at 09:22, Stephen Davies wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Boyd II, Willy wrote:
> 
> > And just to extend on this (though I think it might have been mentioned
> > already), DVB-s is not used much (at all?) here in America.  Unfortunately
> > we Americans have to deal with proprietary digital satellite from Directv
> > and Dish Network, in which case an external box is the only solution.
> 
> ... and in other places, even though standard DVB technologies are
> used, proprietary encryption is added.  The result being that direct
> access to the transmitted MPEG2 stream remains frustratingly just out
> of reach and a big external box and LIRC lash ups are needed.
> 
> Not to mention the stupididty of the external box converting
> mpeg->analogue and the PVR card converting it straight back into mpeg.
> 
> AND you lose the ability to record multiple channels off the same
> multplex with a single dvb card.
> 
> Thanks a lot, Sky.  Sigh.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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