CableCARD to Get Relaxed DRM

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hd — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:27:38 GMT

Thanks for the info Chris. It seems to me that with lots of companies promoting the "desktop replacement," and also selling laptops with tuners (my Toshiba included one, and HP promotes a laptop with Expresscard), that including CableCard with verification would be the next logical step. I guess not.

thanks!

re: CableCARD to Get Relaxed DRM

Joseph Andrews — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:26:27 GMT

Is now a good time or a bad time to buy a Cable Card-equipped XPS 420? I'd like to pull the trigger but with the Media Center TV update and now with the tuner firmware update on the way...?...should I wait?

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chrisl — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:16:38 GMT

hd: I might be able to do a CableCARD with laptop article at some point, but really only Sony has one that I know they are shipping. Toshiba has one certified (I think), but I don't know if it is still shipping. Having to connect a huge external tuner to a laptop isn't a big market opportunity.

DWAnderson: Thanks, fixed.

Jeffrey: This might be a first. :)

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Jeffrey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:21:10 GMT

This actually might a be a flying pig moment. When has DRM actually been lessened by a company?

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DWAnderson — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:59:16 GMT

Your link to "Windows Media Center TV Pack" in the post is not functioning.

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hd — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:29:17 GMT

great job with this site, Chris.

I'd like to see an article devoted to Cablecard and laptops - which ones are available that support cableCard. Right now I'm using a standard Vista laptop with HDHomeRun and Comcast, but would like to figure out how to get all the HD didgital channels through VMC that Comcast Offers.

BTW - using firewire and fireSTB driver fouled up regular recording in VMC really badly, such that Service Pack 1 had to be installed which thankfully straightened it out. firewire recording and the Comcast STB seems not ready for prime time. But maybe CableCard will get me where I want to go?

thanks again.

re: CableCARD to Get Relaxed DRM

chrisl — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:44:46 GMT

Basically, if no flags are on the broadcast (all of those 0's), then no DRM needed.

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Ben Drawbaugh — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:30:59 GMT

That is what I was looking at, but wasn't able to make sense of it.

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chrisl — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:07:32 GMT

It is the table on page 40.

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Ben Drawbaugh — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:02:21 GMT

Chris,

Can you link to the specification that changed? I look around CableLabs' site and wasn't able to figure out which one changed. I assume it is this one, but if so what page?

www.cablelabs.com/.../OC-SP-OCUR-I07-080620.pdf

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Brad — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:28:34 GMT

Hmm... and now I know... and knowing is half the battle... Thanks.

I'll quit spouting off about it then, and wait like everyone else. :-)

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chrisl — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:24:51 GMT

There is no such thing as the "Digital Cable version of Vista." That's just a retail copy of Vista with a second product key that is input into Media Center (and the BIOS).

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Brad — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:09:01 GMT

Hmm... I guess at this point I'll stick with my speculation that TV Pack is actually just an update to the Digital Cable (CableCard) version of Vista.

If (BIG "if") this is he case, I wonder if those of us who have already shelled out the extra cash for CableCard VMC over the last year will get in on the TV Pack goodness..

re: CableCARD to Get Relaxed DRM

Kevin — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:04:54 GMT

Is S1Digital not bound by an NDA ;)