[opendtv] Re: News: NAB, CEA Agree on Converter Box Basics

John Shutt wrote:

Mario continues:

"So, if the box offers a program guide, you can't use a coupon to buy it. If it's got a recording output spigot, it's likewise taboo. Methinks even baseband audio and video outputs would put it off limits. So what manufacturer is going to want to make boxes that most consumers won't want to buy? It's a head scratcher, all right."



The solution is simple and standard:

Take a standard box with features and cripple it in software. Make the crippling done with a removeable jumper,
a cuttable trace, or a software item that can be removed with a USB cable and a PC (through the "software update" port.)

Then hackers will figure out how to do it and put the
instructions on the Internet.


Doug McDonald


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