People will always be able to copy anything. Every new game eventually has a crack. "Black Boxes" for cable have been around for years and will continue to be around for years to come. Copying MP3 signals is a joke. How can you stop anyone from copying anything? If you can see or hear something, then you can record it. The question isn't about quallity or even pirating, it's about figuring out their cost to expenditure ratios. If they ram digital cable down our throats, charging us ONLY 13 dollars a month more, plus the cost of their box, so we can then use inadequate search algorythms to wade through some fairly pathetic programming, most people will other other means. Satellite and local stations can be recieved free, decoding Satellite may be illegal, but paying for basic service is still cheaper than digital cable. As for D/A A/D conversion, well, there really is no excuse, we have been doing this for a long time. So perhaps someone is afraid to spend a little money to give us what they feel is little different than the service we already have. Maybe they should improve the service. My friends have Digital cable and it doesn't do surround sound! If you ask me, they could spend a few billion and if done right, could even usurp the telcom industry with digital voice as well.
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People will always be able to copy anything. Every new game eventually has a crack. "Black Boxes" for cable have been around for years and will continue to be around for years to come. Copying MP3 signals is a joke. How can you stop anyone from copying anything? If you can see or hear something, then you can record it. The question isn't about quallity or even pirating, it's about figuring out their cost to expenditure ratios. If they ram digital cable down our throats, charging us ONLY 13 dollars a month more, plus the cost of their box, so we can then use inadequate search algorythms to wade through some fairly pathetic programming, most people will other other means. Satellite and local stations can be recieved free, decoding Satellite may be illegal, but paying for basic service is still cheaper than digital cable. As for D/A A/D conversion, well, there really is no excuse, we have been doing this for a long time. So perhaps someone is afraid to spend a little money to give us what they feel is little different than the service we already have. Maybe they should improve the service. My friends have Digital cable and it doesn't do surround sound! If you ask me, they could spend a few billion and if done right, could even usurp the telcom industry with digital voice as well.