[mythtv-users] Thank you

[Fred Squires]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 4/19/2010 14:28, MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
>>
>> BTW is there a HD option that has cablecard? or are you stuck with just
>> the unencrypted HD channels?
>
> Neither MythTV nor any other open source program will ever support
> cablecard.  The only way DRM works is if you hide the keys from the user,
> and you simply cannot hide things in open source programs. The only way you
> can have functional DRM on a linux system is by having considerable hardware
> support such that the unencrypted content is never made available to the
> system.

There are rumors that the HDHR with cablecard will allow MythTV to
record programs that do not have copy restriction flags set. Flags
such as copy once. Not that I believe that this will actually happen,
but like I said, the rumors are there.