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Posted by Morton Davis on 10/18/37 11:28
"Dave D" <dave_d@dave_d.com> wrote in message
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> "Morton Davis" <antikerry@home.com> wrote in message
> news:5Ik0f.391775$_o.253773@attbi_s71...
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> > "Dave D" <dave_d@dave_d.com> wrote in message
> > news:TJKdnS_vm44Vv9zenZ2dnUVZ8qidnZ2d@pipex.net...
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> >> "fred-bloggs" <fred-bloggs@hahahotmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:4340918e$0$30203$892e7fe2@authen.white.readfreenews.net...
> >> > "Dave D" <dave_d@dave_d.com> wrote in
> >> > news:F7udnRNhZcshFd3eRVnyrg@pipex.net:
> >> >
> >> >> If you disagree with this, explain how a
> >> >> content provider can stop a device recording via an analogue
broadcast
> >> >> or an analogue video input.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/LINK/F_MacroVision1.html#MACROVISION_016
> >> > descibes Macrovision on VHS.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yeah I know, I covered Macrovision in a previous post :-)
> >>
> >> The claim Morton is making is that broadcasters can disable DVD
Recorders
> >> using flagging, which simply isn't currently technologically possible
as
> >> they are analogue devices at the point of signal input.
> >>
> > However, they are mainly DIGITAL DEVICES.
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> The fact that they store the video digitally is neither here nor there.
The
> signal they are recording is in analogue form until the DVD recorder
> digitises it, and hence cannot contain digital flags at the point of
> broadcast or reception.
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> >AND all analog devices will be
> > useless when HDTV comes online for good. Analog recording devices will
be
> > dead. HDTV will play previously recorded analog recordings, howeever,
> > analog
> > devices will not record HDTV without a decoder.
> >
> > As to the flagging issue, look it up in last month's Newsweek issues. I
> > read
> > it while waiting for my wife to come out of a doctor's appointment.
> >
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> I'm not disputing that the capability for flagging in digital broadcasts
> exists, or its abilty to control digital devices like TIVOs and DVRs I'm
> disputing that analogue input devices like DVD Recorders can be affected
by
> it, which is what you claimed.
>
> Remember that non-technical journals like Newsweek have a habit of getting
> technical things wrong, or misusing technical terms.
>
>Be it as ytoy believe. I am not going to buy a DVD recorder, rather I am
going to build a seperate computer that will do the job better.
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