Microsoft Patches “Broadcast Flag”/CGMS-A Issues

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re: Microsoft Patches “Broadcast Flag”/CGMS-A Issues

CoupleOfPoints — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:20:19 GMT

Ok, So Media Center doesn't "officially" support the broadcast flag, but CGMS-A is just as bad since it has the potential to restrict what can be done with OTA recordings.

Since Microsoft is modifying CGMS-A to ignore the CopyNever setting, why not just ignore the CGMS-A flag completely and avoid any future bugs/problems that might come up with it. Since there is _nothing_ (i.e. laws, etc.) requiring Microsoft to support either CGMS-A or the broadcast flag.

re: Microsoft Patches “Broadcast Flag”/CGMS-A Issues

Christopher Price — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:14:41 GMT

CopyNever is still a mess on CableCARD, too. Microsoft's workaround is to remove the CableCARD from the OCUR receiver when you want to record (and placeshift) an analog or Clear QAM channel.

Okay, so I'm supposed to remove my CableCARD when I'm 500 miles away from home, so that my TV show will be emailed to me. Right...

As much as I'd prefer Media Center to TiVo HD, I'm so un-confident that they'll be fixed (before Fiji at least), that I just inked a one year contract with TiVo.

re: Microsoft Patches “Broadcast Flag”/CGMS-A Issues

Ben Drawbaugh — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:00:49 GMT

Nothing can help you on protected networks like Cable or Satellite, but OTA and analog should be unaffected. This helps with that.

re: Microsoft Patches “Broadcast Flag”/CGMS-A Issues

dnr — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:14:02 GMT

Since this problem occured on Vista/ATI/CarbleCard/HDTV how does this help?