[mythtv-users] Re: EFF calls for developers for MythTV

Wendy Seltzer wendy at seltzer.com
Tue Jul 6 15:44:51 EDT 2004


At 3:09 PM -0400 7/6/04, Doug Larrick wrote:
>Read the article more carefully.  They are asking for help with 
>*HDTV*, due to the broadcast flag going active in a year.  This FCC 
>policy will make it illegal to design and sell new hardware for a PC 
>that's capable of receiving or processing HDTV signals.

Thanks for all the interest here.  Yes, our project is focused around 
U.S. HDTV because the FCC's broadcast flag will restrict the 
capabilities of tuner devices a year from now -- and, as Doug 
describes, will prevent the manufacture or import into the US of any 
broadcast HDTV tuner cards that could be used with MythTV, because 
those cards aren't "robust against user modification" and give the 
full digital output for recording.  Systems we build now will serve 
as benchmarks against which we can compare the limited capabilities 
of next year's consumer electronics.

Our hope is to work with folks here to identify and solve current 
problems with HDTV setup, and to help enhance guides like Jarod's and 
builds like KnoppMyth to make the system easier for a newcomer to 
install.  At the same time, we expect our effort to contribute to the 
overall Myth project and help other Myth setups too.

Thanks!
--Wendy
<http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/>
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Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.com || wendy at eff.org
Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation, http://www.eff.org
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
http://wendy.seltzer.org/


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