[mythtv-users] FCC releases CableCard changes

[Brian Wood]

On Friday, October 15, 2010 02:17:47 pm Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Not so-- Many comcast markets have most of the non-premium channels
> set to copy freely as a compromise for TiVo Cablecard users to allow
> playback with TiVo's desktop streaming software.  It won't work for
> channels and programs marked copy never.  Note that there may be some
> parallels between the copy protection flags and firewire output, but
> one doesn't necessarily imply the other.

That's good to know, and refreshing. Thanks.