Is The Public Stuck With The Broadcast Flag?

peeping_Thomist writes "The only company that sells HDTV tuner cards for Linux has run out of cards to sell, and they are now missing deadlines for new getting new cards. Linux users who want to view and record HDTV face an uphill battle. Meanwhile, the dreaded July 1, 2005 deadline for manufacturing DRM-free HDTV tuners is fast approaching. MythTV supports HDTV tuner cards, but so far no one has made a move to, as the EFF puts it, "buy, build, and sell fully-capable, non-flag-compliant HDTV receivers" prior to the July 1 deadline. The current combination of MythTV and pcHDTV (assuming pcHDTV cards become available again) may, as the EFF says, be "great for geeks," but it is a far cry from the TIVO-esque simplicity a mass market demands. Unless someone can get bring a DRM-free hdtv recorder to market before the deadline, it seems the general public will have no chance to avoid the broadcast flag."

Comments

Re:PCHDTV - Come to Canada.

[bmetzler]

We have plenty of room ready, especially in preperation for the dogers after President Bush reinstates the draft to fight his war(s) (if gets back in).

Read my journal entry on the subject of the draft. I'm sure that you will be depressed to learn that it is really Democrats who are trying to reinstate the draft. Democrats who think nothing of using your sons and daughters as pawns to try to hurt President Bush.

-Brent

Re:fp

[MasterDater]

Ah of course, so when are you going to make a $100 million movie and offer it for free then? What's that? Never? So why do you expect other people to..? You must be very childesh to expect others to sacrifice where you won't/can't..