On Feb 7, 2008 10:15 AM, Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Meanwhile, the ability to charge for it would in turn involve the > ability to encrypt it. This would need the equivalent of cable card or > some such for OTA and some billing agency that issued cards and could > remotely activate them for selected content. In order to do that the CE > guys would have to sell boxes supporting this card scheme and to get > the economy of scale you would need a national agreed on standard for > all this. I find it amusing that broadcast security is always associated with the need for a physical card. > In the world of OTA I'll bet only somebody like Tivo could pull this off > now, since they would also be equipped to handle overnight trickle > content and already address the guide and billing issues. You mean using their image-based datacasting? That mechanism is a joke. Nevermind that there is no infrastructure in place to deploy the content to stations for delivery via multi-hop datacasting. Cheers Kon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.