[mythtv-users] More DRM for Frontier FIOS
David Engel
david at istwok.net
Thu Oct 27 17:27:13 UTC 2016
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 05:02:32PM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Aug 4, 2016 11:30, "David Engel" <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> >
> > It was just over a year ago that I had the displeasure of reporting
> > that Verizon FIOS had enabled copy protection on the national FOX
> > channels. For those of us FIOS cablecard customers unfortunately sold
> > to Frontier, the saga continues to worsen. It has been reported that
> > Frontier's policy is to copy protect everything, much like Time Warner
> > Cable does. That appears to be the case as all new channels rolled
> > out in the last week or so have copy protection enabled. It's
> > probably only a matter of time now before they get around to enabling
> > it on existing channels too.
>
> And so it begins. Reports on another forum have said that Dallas/Ft. Worth
> is now CCI copy-once except for OTA
Unfortunately, I can confirm this. There are still a few unrestricted
channels, but they appear to be oversights (that will eventually be
"corrected") or channels that probably don't want to be restricted
(shopping, religioin, etc.).
David
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