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Will We Need A SmartCard to Watch Digital TV?

Posted by timothy on from the max-headroom dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This story on EE Times points out that Hollywood and major electronics manufacturers are in agreement on a SmartCard requirement for digital video interconnectivity. Note that the article talks about them 'closing the analog hole.'"

4 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    or so you think. bia bia bia

  2. Re:Fp by spike+hay · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I strip you of your fp in the name of logged in crapflooders! AC retards.

    --
    If you don't understand any of my sayings, come to me in private and I shall take you in my German mouth.
  3. Bill and Orwell... by missing_boy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Another article on big-brotherness, *click*, and we're met with a big add for Microsoft's .NET.

    It's not easy not being paranoid these days.

  4. I'm all for it... by kevlar · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    One thing that annoys the hell out of me are people who do not pay for their Cable/Dish TV. Regardless of how incompetent the cable company may be, there are alternatives and there is simply no excuse for stealing cable. This has nothing to do with copy-control.