Like the broadcast flag, it is just another way to ensure only licensed and controlled manufacturers can decode the signals. This gives the content owners a bit more leverage and increases the legal barriers to entry of the small independents, Chinese manufacturers, etc.
In turn, the content owners can bargain for things like limited commercial skipping, restricted analog upscaling of DVD's, limited home network redistribution, etc.
And it obviously has very little to do with any reported problems of any pirates recording analog HDTV feeds.
- Tom Hughes Gary-DJWV76 wrote:
-----Original Message----- [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Limpert Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 4:29 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: NCTA: HBO's Zitter Says DRM Is MisnomerAll this talk about the "analog hole" assumes that it is practical for the casual pirate to digitize, capture, and compress the HD video from the component outputs of the STB or other HD video source. Is that really true?Of course it isn't. There are relatively few options that encode from analog HD component and they are not cheap. And anything that could do that is equally capable of encoding from their existing linear HD feeds. No need to wait for the on demand version unless you really want the lower quality encoding that is usually used for the VOD version (the linear feed and on demand content use different production chains). It is a canard. Gary Gary Hughes Video Architect, Advanced Engineering Motorola On Demand Solutions, MA34 80 Central St. Boxborough, MA 01719 Email: ghughes@xxxxxxxxxxxx Office: 978 266 7269 Mobile: 978 339 3615----------------------------------------------------------------------You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.
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