[mythtv-users] The Death of MythTV in the US?

[Skitals]

Dean Harding wrote:
> 
> Skitals wrote:
>> What I want to know is, if Gefen can strip the HDCP protection from an
>> HDMI
>> signal, why can't we?
> 
> IANAL, but it's because when you sign into the HDCP scheme, you 
> basically sign a contract saying that you'll never strip the HDCP from 
> the recording. If you don't sign the contract, they don't give the keys 
> for decryption.
> 
> The Gefen device, as far as I can tell, would store the video file 
> unencrypted on it's hard disk, but if you played the file back over the 
> HDMI output, it would encrypt it again. It was only by physically 
> removing the internal hard disk that you were able to get at the 
> unencrypted content.
> 
> When looked at as a "black box" the Gefen device was technically not in 
> violation of the HDCP "rules", but it was certainly in violation of the 
> "spirit" of the rules.
> 
> Anyway, that's just my understanding of the situation.
> 
> Dean.
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I guess the best I can do is pray some shady hdmi-pass through receiver gets
released that strips hdcp, and snatch it up before it gets "fixed" :)

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