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New Disney / Samsung HDD Video Set-Top Box

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-might-be-neat dept.

MDMurphy writes "Disney announced a new set-top box built for them by Samsung that will hold movies downloaded over the air via what they call MovieBeam in an internal HDD. You'd pay a monthly rental fee for the box and $2.39 - $3.99 per movie for a 24 hour viewing period. Dotcast Inc. provides the movie beaming, sending the digital data out over terrestrial TV broadcast stations. "

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  1. How long until it's cracked? by Electrode · · Score: 5, Funny

    I give it 3 days.

  2. I'm sure... by GatorMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...this won't get hacked just like DTV, DishNet, 802.11, and everything else sent through the air!

  3. The fact that there will be a camera ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 4, Funny
    in the set top box so that Disney will be able to watch you watching their content to ensure that you are watching with a respectful level of attention and in a responsible manner, not half watching or touching yourself or the like, is reason enough not to get it as far as I'm concerned.

    Now if you'll excuse, I've got to slip into my mid-afternoon tin foil hat (the mid-day one has worn out it's blocking powers by now).

  4. Subliminal Messages! by altek · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Disney announced a new set-top box built for them BUY SAMSUNG that will hold movies downloaded over the air..."

    Now the editors are hiding subliminal messages in the form of "typos" !! :)

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  5. Woohoo! Free Disney movies for all! by dfay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Honestly, how long will it be before the delivery mechanism is reverse engineered and the security broken? Even when systems like this have a decent attempt at good cryptography (DirectTV, etc.) they usually get broken. And then there are the other schemes (SDMI, cuecat, etc.) where the attempts at security just give the /. crowd a good chuckle.

    It's hard enough securing Alice and Bob so they can talk to each other securely. It's much harder when there is one Alice and *many* Bobs, and the Bobs are divided into a group you can only barely trust (those that subscribe) and those you can't trust at all.

    Anyway, bring it on! I'd love to see another example of applying security techniques to this kind of problem... it's just that I anticipate that it will be another "whatever you do, don't do this" kind of example. :)

  6. COOL! by asscroft · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would have expected the pr0n industry to be first with this. Go Disney!

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