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Microsoft Patches Restricted Content Errors on MCE 2005

Microsoft patched the Restricted Content errors in Windows Vista a few months back, and today lonely old Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is getting its fix. The patch (KB956148) is used to resolve “an issue in which a Windows Media Center configuration that uses an analog TV broadcast without...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Tue, Nov 25 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management
Microsoft Launches New Worldwide Platform for Broadcast TV on the PC

Leading tuner and chipset providers announce support for new Microsoft platform. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Sept. 12, 2008 — Today at IBC2008, Microsoft Corp. announced it has delivered in the marketplace Protected Broadcast Driver Architecture (PBDA), Microsoft’s new worldwide platform...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, Sep 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, TV Tuners
Microsoft Patches “Broadcast Flag”/CGMS-A Issues

Today Microsoft is will a patch to correct the issues seen in last month’s reported “ Broadcast Flag” issues . In reality, the fix is for CGMS-A and the official word is still that Media Center doesn’t support the Broadcast Flag. Last month’s issue propagated from CGMS-A being on the analog source data...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Tue, Jun 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management
Short Bits: Digital Copy, tru2way, Big Media

Remember just last month when I said “I’d like to see companies embrace the fact that DVD is still the mainstream format?” Based on a story in CED from this past week studios are starting to realize that’s the key, with one Warner exec saying “…. 64 percent of consumers said having a digital file gives...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sat, Jun 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Portable Media, Rights Management
Short Bits: Media Center University, Broadcast Flag

Microsoft’s CE Installer blog posted today about the Broadcast Flag issue that I previously talked about proclaiming that “Windows Media Center does not enable or utilize the Broadcast Flag .” They clearly want to make sure that the CE installers and integrators using Media Center know this isn’t an...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, Jun 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management
Broadcast Flag Follow-up

I’ve been attempting to learn about the Broadcast Flag over the past few days, and instead of focusing on what it can/can’t do I decided to look at a few other things. First of all, I want to say that I believe the issue early this month with NBC was a total fluke. I think a lot of people are getting...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sat, May 31 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Extenders
Short Bits: Broadcast Flag

Broadcast Flag issues? I’d like to write a nice article about the Broadcast Flag and what it is and isn’t. Only problem, there is no good source of factual information at all on the web. The Wikipedia entry doesn’t cite a single source [citation needed] about the technical aspect or implementation. In...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Fri, May 16 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management
Zune Community Brings New Shared Experience to Music

Spring release adds features that inspire people to explore, discover and discuss their favorite music. REDMOND, Wash. — May 5, 2008 — Last November Zune launched “Zune Social,” a music community Web site where music fans can discover new music, browse each others’ playlists, and comment on their discoveries...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, May 5 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management
Fact or Fiction: Microsoft and Blu-ray

I’ve gotten a fair amount of reaction to the various articles I’ve posted on Microsoft and Blu-ray, and it still seems the overall consensus on the web is that Microsoft will fall head over heels for Blu-ray in their products. I want to preface this post by saying that I’m not advocating Microsoft not...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Feb 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Xbox, HD DVD, Extenders, Streaming, Blu-ray
Short Bits: DRM, Vista SP1, Xbox 360, More

Hard to think people are just now getting around to talking about the DRM crap made by Peter Gutmann and Bruce Schneier. I went after Schneier in Feburary , but it’s hard to imagine that these “professionals” up into the ring without knowledge of any of the real issues. Oh well, they might be incredibility...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Aug 16 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Xbox, Windows Vista, TV Tuners
Another Cryptography Expert Gets Into The Vista DRM Ring

Wired News | Vista Month: Welcome To The DRM? | Wired News has a blog about DRM in Vista, and yet again we have another person writing about something they have no clue about. Michael Calore and Scott Gilbertson basically run down a few of the most popular posts online about Vista’s “DRM.” Here’s one...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Feb 12 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Windows Vista
OS X and Linux: CableCARD, DIRECTV, Dish, HD DVD, Blu-ray?

Something that comes up often in my posts about different technologies coming to Windows Vista is why are they always limited to Windows? Well, the answer is that most of them are just not. Starting with CableCARD, the OpenCable Unidirectional Receiver (OCUR) was specifically created to bring native...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Tue, Feb 6 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Windows Vista, DIRECTV/Dish
Vista PMP Already Cracked?

Update on Driver Signing Bypass (Alex Ionescu's Blog) ( Via Engadget )| Alex Ionescu appears to have takin the first step to defeat that evil DRM that prevents everyone from doing everything (or something like that). He goes through the different ways that Microsoft could patch Vista to disable his work...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Mon, Jan 29 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Windows Vista
DefectiveByDesign's Anti-DRM Campaign Gets Trashed by Digg Readers

Something that I personally find hilarious is that DefectiveByDesign, the Anti-DRM Group that was formed last year, is getting trashed by the growing user base that actually understands some of the problems behind content protection and DRM. This is a very good day in the world of DRM and Digg. Here...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Sat, Jan 27 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Digital Media, Rights Management, Windows Vista, HD DVD
What Content Will Be Crippled When Output in Vista?

There are tons of people out there not understanding all of this “Vista DRM”, mainly because of less than accurate media reporting. That’s completely understandable, but lets run down a quick list here of some of the popular content out there. DVD Rip (DivX, XivD, etc) downloaded from Bit Torrent/IRC...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Jan 25 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Windows Vista, HD DVD, CableCARD
"Setting The Record Straight" muslix64 on AACS

muslix64 e-mailed me this bit, as well as posted it at Doom9 and I assume various other places. Text copied directly from e-mail. . . I spent the last few days reading a lot of articles on BackupHDDVD, reading a lot of people's post/comments on various websites. This is the time to set the record straight...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Tue, Jan 2 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, HD DVD
Cyberlink Responds to Alleged AACS Crack

With the HD DVD AACS Crack/Hack that supposedly happened last week, I said that Cyberlink would most likely issue some additional information on the matter. I just got an e-mail from the people at Cyberlink with some great information. Above all, Cyberlink is sure PowerDVD's implementation of AACS fully...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Tue, Jan 2 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, HD DVD
No, AACS Was Not Cracked

All that happened was the method Cyberlink to decrypt AACS used was semi-compromised. Their implemention kept the key in memory, a key which is needed to legally decrypt the content protection. What is likely going to happen is that specific key will be revoked, and Cyberlink will have to issue an update...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, Dec 27 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, HD DVD
Introducing Media Center Pro, a New Publication Focused on MCE

Introducing Media Center Pro, a New Publication Focused on MCE | The guys (and gals) at CE Pro have introduced Media Center Pro at new published that is focused on Media Center. This is the magazine for “people who build, sell, install, integrate and support Media Center PCs.” Just a bit of what’s lined...

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Wed, May 24 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Xbox, Windows Vista, HD DVD
A Sitdown with Microsoft's Joe Belfiore (Part II)

A Sitdown with Microsoft's Joe Belfiore (Part II) | Joe Belfiore chats with Stephen Speicher clarifying a few issues with Open vs. Closed Box PCs, DRM, and Media Center’s future. Check out Part I Here

Posted to Chris Lanier's Blog by chrisl on Thu, Mar 9 2006
Filed under: Filed under: Media Center, Digital Media, Rights Management, Windows Vista

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