This is the worst news I have read in a while. *Content providers* want control over everything. This sounds like a way for them to update your TV like they do a cable or satellite box. This way they can add restrictions to the way we watch and record TV, especially digital HDTV broadcasts, what devices we can connect to our TV's, etc. Add to the fact that this will happen automatically behind the scenes is all the more worrysome.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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This is the worst news I have read in a while. *Content providers* want control over everything. This sounds like a way for them to update your TV like they do a cable or satellite box. This way they can add restrictions to the way we watch and record TV, especially digital HDTV broadcasts, what devices we can connect to our TV's, etc. Add to the fact that this will happen automatically behind the scenes is all the more worrysome.
Am I the only one who is troubled by this?