2009 HDTV conversion.

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by sleddogman

One thing that no one has mentioned in regards to PC HD tuners...

After July 2007, every PC HD tuner manufacturer was mandated to embed and enforce DRM capabilities into their products to prevent copying of the broadcast stream if the DRM data bits were set. It's interesting that pre-July-07 tuners haven't shown up for big bux on eBay yet, or do you think folks totally unaware of this little DRM gotcha...?

Are you referring to the so-called "broadcast flag"? It was originally supposed to go into effect in July 2005, but was struck down in court in May 2005. Do you have any links to describe anything planned for July 2007? I have seen nothing regarding any such resurrection of that proposal.

Oh, if it really happened last July, yes, people would be swarming all over "non-restricted" computer tuners on Ebay and elsewhere... I had friends who almost did that in early 2005.