[LUNI] OT: Linux-friendly TV Tuners for sale

[Mike Scott]

But as long as the decryption is done in hardware there shouldn't be an
issue.
The cablecards won't let you have what you aren't entitled to.
The TiVo box runs Linux as it's OS, so technically it should be
possible.
Although hardware manufacturers (modems etc) seem to like to eliminate
hardware and offload functions to software and Microsoft is more than
happy to take up the slack and lock the hardware to Windows.

- Mike Scott


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [LUNI] OT: Linux-friendly TV Tuners for sale
> From: Trev Peterson <trev at advanced-reality.com>
> Date: Mon, June 11, 2007 12:04 pm
> To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
> <luni at luni.org>
> 
> I'm not so sure about that.  I think the DRM/encryption may be a
> problem.  It'd be great if I'm wrong but it seems to defeat the whole
> purpose of locking it up in the first place.
> 
> 	Trev
> 
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 09:39 -0700, Mike Scott wrote:
> 
> > I would imagine there will be (if not already) digital tuner cards that
> > accept cablecards and play nice with Linux Myth.
> > 
> 
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