[opendtv] Re: Quirks on the ATSC STBs
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:37:21 -0700
Dan;
It's highly unlikely that any DVD recorder (as a stand-alone product or even
a computer component) will adhere to the broadcast flag, but caveat emptor.
Once again - I tire of repeating this - the "broadcast flag" just says "you
can't redistribute this content" not you can't record it. And, the
broadcast flag is not required to even be adhered to.
CGMS-A (in analog captions) does provide for copy once/copy never/copy all.
But, that isn't the broadcast flag, and adherence is a matter of agreement
by the vendor/maker.
C'mon Dan, you're an engineer and not an idiot; why are you retaining memes
that are in error? You are beginning to sound like a technophobe. (I've met
technical writers that were actually technophobes.)
John Willkie
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Asunto: [opendtv] Quirks on the ATSC STBs
I noticed a few quirks about the Digital Stream ATSC STB. The most recent
one that got me was that while using it to tune into a sporting event and
taping it on my VCR, the auto shutoff engaged about 5 hours later. This
left me without the end of the event. I had even turned my box on after the
event had started it's broadcast. So now, not only can I not program the
channel I need to record on my VCR, I also have a limit to my record time.
So on a practical standpoint, the STB is really only for live watching.
(This again points me to the need to buy a DVD recorder, which may or may
not record due to the Broadcast flag.)
Another quirk is the fact that it needs power to pass an RF signal, even
though this model has analog pass-through. To get analog pass-through, one
uses the remote to switch to analog. So the analog pass-through is
obviously not a relay (not that I expected one).
Dan
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