[mythtv-users] FCC releases CableCard changes

[Brian Wood]

On Friday, October 15, 2010 02:08:19 pm Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > On Friday, October 15, 2010 01:45:14 pm Phil Bridges wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Phil Bridges <gravityhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> >> >>> On 10/15/2010 15:25, Phil Bridges wrote:
> >> >>>> Anybody care to pontificate on how this affects a MythTV /
> >> >>>> CableCard collaboration?
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> None at all.  The release deals with the availability, pricing, and
> >> >>> installation of customer owned CableCard hardware.  It makes no
> >> >>> mention on access restrictions on content made available through
> >> >>> CableCard devices.
> >> >>> 
> >> >>> You'll be able to lease a card, and have a tech that is properly
> >> >>> trained on how to install it, but you're still going to be limited
> >> >>> to the 'copy freely' content.
> >> >> 
> >> >> As it is, I'd be happy to get a 3- or 4-tuner Linux-compatible
> >> >> CableCard box that could tune "copy freely" content.
> >> > 
> >> > except nothing will be set to "copy freely"...
> >> 
> >> Not in my case.
> > 
> > Really? What planet do you live on? I might like to move there.
> > 
> > You only need a CableCard for encrypted content, I can't imagine anything
> > labeled as "copy freely" that the cable companies would bother
> > encrypting. They might just as well put it out as clear QAM.
> 
> Believe it or not, I'm on Comcast.  I have the majority of my channels
> marked "Copy Freely" out of my cable box - I'm using the Firewire
> output to record them.


Wow. I'd guess that is a "mistake" on their part, not intentional.

Of course it *should* be the way you have it, anything you have paid to watch you should be able to record and watch 
later, I thought that was the whole point of the Betamax decision.

I could understand if PPV or On-Demand viewing of "Premium Content" (meaning movies still in theaters or within a short 
window after that) was not available for copying, but anything beyond that is just greed.

If you have a change of status in the next few days we will know for certain that they are monitoring this list.