[opendtv] Re: HDMI issues
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:30:35 -0500
John Golitsis wrote:
> The blame likely lies with your STB! Most STBs (all
> cable and satellite STBs, anyway) have Macrovision
> capability in them. The question is, what's the
> trigger in those signals that's engaging it?
My more fundamental question is, *why* would any recording device of OTA
or cable/DBS signals support Macrovision? My Philips DVDR "supports
Macrovision." It says so in the manual. But why? When the signal comes
from the RF medium, I would put a Macrovision-cancellation filter in all
of them. I can see cable/DBS channels being scrambled in general, but
there's no call for any sort of copy protection once you've paid your
subscription fee and/or conditional access fee. And there's never any
excuse for blocking recording of FOTA signals. That's what fair use was
all about. We, the customers, are allowed to do this, whether the stream
is analog, SD, or HD. End of story. So PVRs and DVDRs should never
prevent this, even if there's some inadvertant Macrovision-like glitch
in the signal.
Bert
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