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And about being able to get an ATSC/QAM tuner card for linux still, that's great... can you get premium content off your cable with that, like most HD channels?]]>Jan 26th 2007 7:56AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/

Ben: we, the ~10% of the population who actually know what DRM is and care about it, end up getting stiffed by the "wisdom of crowds" because the other 90% of the populace will remain blissfully ignorant of that ICT label. People will have fewer choices, but not even be aware of it. People will just bitch that their movies don't look good and not know why, or buy e.g. a SACD, try to play it on their (SPDIF-connected) home theater, and have it magically not work.


And the worst part is, like *every DRM scheme ever concoted*, this only affects legitimate consumers -- the existence of DRM so clever that nobody can find a hacker who is cleverer would practically be a violation of a laws of the physical universe. No matter what the protection industry does, somebody will break it, and once the cracked content is loose, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle. So once again, people who buy and pay for the content are restricted in how they use it (perhaps without even knowing how or why), while pirates don't even feel the speed bump as they go cruising along.]]>Jan 26th 2007 2:38PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/
At the same time I have the right to not buy it.]]>Jan 26th 2007 3:25PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/
First of all, Hollywood may not set ICT at all, ever. At the earliest, they say it would be 2010. By then any monitor and/or PC you buy will have HDCP. They are already shipping monitors with HDCP, and video cards have had it for YEARS!

Secondly regarding CableCard. I don't know what people expect. You can already buy DVRs like the Tivo S3 and record those channels. You can even buy (soon) PCs that do it (with Vista). You don't really expect studios like Universal to broadcast Hi-Def movies and TV shows completely free and clear do you? No, the alternative is simply not to have these channels at all.

Not to mention that you'll probably need a new PC to record and playback Hi-Def anyway. If it's anything older than a Core2Duo or X2 with Geforce 7-series, it won't cut the mustard anyway.

So yes, it is "no big deal". Unless you're just a pirate who wants to download everything from the tubes. Oh golly, so sorry...]]>Jan 26th 2007 5:05PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/
As for CableCard: Great, you can buy a Tivo. I've noticed a bit of irritation from Tivo owners due to Tivo constantly chipping away at the control you have, pushing ads on viewers and so forth. Which is why people want a PC to do this, so they have control... oops, but apparently you have to buy Vista, which means you'll have to buy the software, which means you won't have control. You'll essentially end up with an expensive Tivo. Do we expect unencrypted HD channels? No, not really, but there's no reason not to let linux in the game too. After all, current cable boxes are required to have an unecrypted firewire output that simply spits the mpeg2 stream out to the PC, where any software can do whatever with it. If you could just change channels through the same interface, I don't think anyone would even care about CableCard.

And you don't need a new PC to playback regular HD, it's encoded in mpeg-2 at 1080i at most, my xbox 1 with XBMC can almost handle it. The specifications you list are for Blu-ray and HD-DVD]]>Jan 28th 2007 7:12PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/http://hd.engadget.com/2007/01/25/vistas-crippled-output-drm-explained/Jan 28th 2007 7:15PM