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Microsoft Announces CableCARD Support

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the if-you-yell-loud-enough-and-long-enough dept.

Thomas Hawk writes "Microsoft and CableLabs announced today that they have reached agreement that will allow digital cable ready CableCARD supported Media Center PCs to ship by the Holiday Season next year. Lack of premium HDTV cable or satellite support was frequently cited as one of the largest weaknesses of the Media Center platform. Central to this agreement is the DRM protection scheme developed by Microsoft to protect HDTV cable programming under the OpenCable process."

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  1. DRM this DRM that, if it is a pain I won't buy it by Retired+Replicant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am so sick of all this DRM crap. It just makes things a pain in the butt for average customers who aren't trying to pirate anything. If the DRM makes the product a pain in the ass to use, I won't buy it.