[opendtv] Hollywood Seeks Control Over HD Content
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:15:26 -0400
The solution is so simple, Hollywood. Just don't release on cable until
you've released on DVD. It's not like DVD release takes so long. In
other words, protect your stuff without intruding yourselves, uninvited
and unwanted, into our equipment.
If the FCC allows this, it will just be another excuse for perpetuating
nuisance problems like broadcasters asserting CGMS "copy never" on their
programs, and then playing dumb when this is brought to their attention.
Bert
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http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/86630
Hollywood Seeks Control Over HD Content
09.04.2009.
Hollywood lobbyists are pushing the FCC to allow selectable output
control, allowing studios to avert recording of hi-def content, reports
indicate. The Motion Pictures Association of America met with FCC staff
recently, seeking a waiver on the ban against selectable outputs
established nearly six years ago.
The rule prohibits disabling a video stream to a consumer HD digital
video recording device. Hollywood wants it disabled so it can release HD
movies on cable before DVD, without the danger of having those movies
recorded in HD and redistributed.
The MPAA made the same request more than a year ago, the reports
indicate. Allowing selectable output capability could impede some home
theater systems, Ars Technica reports.
The selectable output ban was part of the FCC's plug-and-play order,
which directed cable operators eventually to separate encryption from
set-top boxes so the devices could be sold at retail. The FCC recently
granted a waiver on encrypted set-tops so cable operators could deploy
cheap boxes for subscribers using analog TVs.
Matthew Lasar has more on the issue at Ars Technica.
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