[opendtv] Re: News: Cable operators find it tough to swallow HDTV
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:56:03 -0400
John McClenny wrote:
> Actually, almost all new content deals for digital, even for
retranmission
> of OTA signals, now require encryption. Stupid, but true.
I could be completely mis-remembering this but I thought the orig cable
card deal forbid encrypting free OTA channels over cable.
- Tom
> Inline
> On 6/6/06, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>"The other leading remedy would hobble new HDTV sets designed with a
>>slot to work with a slick, credit card-size CableCard instead of a box."
>>
>>Hobble? That's entirely up to cable operators. If they switch to digital
>>256-QAM, and shut off analog, there will be more room even with HDTV
>>than there is now with analog.
>>
>>No one is forcing cable operators to transmit their digital programming
>>100 percent encrypted. That's entirely up to them. No need to force all
>>cable customers to use CableCard or a company-provided digital STB. For
>>example, the basic or extended basic tiers could be made available
>>unencrypted, like it is now with NTSC in most(?) cases. That would cover
>>about 2/3 of all cable customers. Quite a savings for the operators, if
>>they don't have to provide all those STBs.
>>
>
>
> Actually, almost all new content deals for digital, even for retranmission
> of OTA signals, now require encryption. Stupid, but true.
>
> But most content deals are jaw-droppingly silly. If the content providers
> could keep people from actually viewing their content, but still get paid,
> they would be happy.
>
>
>
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