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Posted by Jan Panteltje on 02/22/07 21:31
On a sunny day (Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:58:43 -0500) it happened "Smarty"
<nobody@nobody.com> wrote in <J7GdnQ59t7memUPYnZ2dnUVZ_silnZ2d@adelphia.com>:
>Jan,
>
>This HDMI adapter does offer a "back-door" type of access to the cable and
>satellite content which could otherwise be difficult or impossible to gain
>access to / extract in mpeg2/mpeg4/H.264 .ps or .ts streams given the way
>the content cartel works and cable/satellite hardware is designed.
Well, I have some experience with that (cartel):
http://panteltje.com/panteltje/dvd/index.html
Unfortunately it is now very illegal to even (think?) about all that :-)
The good news is Blu-Ray and that other HD DVD format is already in the clear .
I think most European DTV channels are in the clear too...
OTOH a news system with even more DRM is in the make for sat TV in Europe.
Personally I do not watch cracked stuff anymore, we have hundreds of free channels,
if they do not want me to see their advertisers, then that is their problem :-)
>Recompression from the HDMI capture down to a BluRay or HD DVD compliant
>format would be inefficient and risk artifacts and image quality loss, but
>may be the only way to capture and then economically archive this type of
>programming. Alternately, perhaps the cable and satellite providers will
>offer burners in their HD PVRs. Time will tell.
Indeed.
>Since a 1 TB drive has already been announced, holding ~90 minutes of this
>raw content, I would think the time is almost immediate when a very usable
>somewhat modestly priced NLE could be built. Blackmagic identifies Adobe
>Premiere Pro, Final Cut, and other software as already being up to the task.
>Looks like a new and interesting next frontier.
>
>Smarty
Agreed.
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