You are right about HDCP being cracked: A company called Spatz sold a box ("DVIMAGIC") that contained HDCP-decoder chips sourced on the grey market. This box decrypted HDCP and had a clear HDMI output. However they were forced by legal threat not to sell that product anymore... I read that another company in Korea is still selling a similar box.
Of course the price point and availability does not make this interesting for the general public - so the DRM serves its purpose in making it hard enough for the average Joe.
In Europe, mostly the DVB-Standard is used to transmit digital TV.
DVB-S over Satellite, DVB-C over Cable, DVB-T for terrestrial reception.
All three variations of the DVB-Standard can also transmit High Definition video, e.g. there is an HD channel broadcasting via the Astra satellite system on 19.2East called Euro1080 http://www.euro1080.tv.
Some cable networks use proprietary encryption, but the basic transmission usually occurs via DVB in MPEG.
In Australia, HDTV is available over DVB-T terrestrially.
I don't know about the exact situation in Italy, but DVB-T has been rolled out extensively in the UK and I heard also in Scandinavia. Rollout has started in Germany with Berlin, some trials exist in Austria.
Regarding this card: No, it will not be able to receive European digital broadcasts, as it uses the American ATSC Standard that uses other modulation, even though also MPEG2 is broadcast.
But there are DVB-T PCI cards available, they cost just a bit more than the cheap DVB-S cards (starting at EUR 60) - around EUR 90, but they also do not have a hardware MPEG decoder chip on board but offload that to the CPU or graphics card like the card mentioned here.
Digital-TV in Europe is mostly driven by the Pay-TV companies in each country with the UK and France having the most successful adoption rate - no wonder as old analog terrestrial TV offered only 4-5 channels of stuff people did not want to see (not implying that the now 500 channels piping out lots of crap are better qualitywise;-)
Ahem, as far as I remember, you will still need to run ANY version of Windows inside VMware in order to run your Windows Legacy Applications.
So they still need Windows Licenses and also perhaps support from Microsoft for those virtual-machine setups...
Still from an administrative point of view, I can clearly see the advantage of locking down those installations so that users can really only run the legacy apps and not fuck up anything.
It might be especially wise to remove IE completely, as its security holes allow users to do some nice things (i.e. running a command prompt), as I was able to find out in a very restrictive Windows Terminal Server + Citrix Client setup;-)
Suggest Massa Gates is up at the BIG HOUSE giggling whilst one of his girly boys read him this article an all the comments it generates. Look up the word and see if it don't fit. j.
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You are right about HDCP being cracked:
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A company called Spatz sold a box ("DVIMAGIC") that contained HDCP-decoder chips sourced on the grey market.
This box decrypted HDCP and had a clear HDMI output.
However they were forced by legal threat not to sell that product anymore...
I read that another company in Korea is still selling a similar box.
However you are not right about recording HDMI:
It is possible to record non-HDCP-protected HDMI signals with a box in the sub US$300 range:
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/intensi
Combine those two boxes and off you go...
Of course the price point and availability does not make this interesting for the general public -
so the DRM serves its purpose in making it hard enough for the average Joe.
In Europe, mostly the DVB-Standard is used to transmit digital TV.
;-)
DVB-S over Satellite,
DVB-C over Cable,
DVB-T for terrestrial reception.
All three variations of the DVB-Standard can also transmit High Definition video, e.g. there is an HD channel broadcasting via the Astra satellite system on 19.2East called Euro1080 http://www.euro1080.tv.
Some cable networks use proprietary encryption, but the basic transmission usually occurs via DVB in MPEG.
In Australia, HDTV is available over DVB-T terrestrially.
I don't know about the exact situation in Italy, but DVB-T has been rolled out extensively in the UK and I heard also in Scandinavia. Rollout has started in Germany with Berlin, some trials exist in Austria.
Regarding this card:
No, it will not be able to receive European digital broadcasts, as it uses the American ATSC Standard that uses other modulation, even though also MPEG2 is broadcast.
But there are DVB-T PCI cards available, they cost just a bit more than the cheap DVB-S cards (starting at EUR 60) - around EUR 90, but they also do not have a hardware MPEG decoder chip on board but offload that to the CPU or graphics card like the card mentioned here.
Digital-TV in Europe is mostly driven by the Pay-TV companies in each country with the UK and France having the most successful adoption rate - no wonder as old analog terrestrial TV offered only 4-5 channels of stuff people did not want to see (not implying that the now 500 channels piping out lots of crap are better qualitywise
Best regards
jjj
Ahem, as far as I remember, you will still need to run ANY version of Windows inside VMware in order to run your Windows Legacy Applications.
;-)
So they still need Windows Licenses and also perhaps support from Microsoft for those virtual-machine setups...
Still from an administrative point of view, I can clearly see the advantage of locking down those installations so that users can really only run the legacy apps and not fuck up anything.
It might be especially wise to remove IE completely, as its security holes allow users to do some nice things (i.e. running a command prompt), as I was able to find out in a very restrictive Windows Terminal Server + Citrix Client setup
Well, I actually got to play around with an AIBO. Still I felt that my Furby was a lot more fun and cute.
;-)))
...
;-)
But the kicker is that you get to stick the "Memory Sticks" up Aibo's butt for reprogramming it
Good boy, come here with that SoundClip (tm) so I can replace that MemoryStick (tm)
AIBO: (runs away with music-laden memory stick in his...
> You can't override names in Windows the way you can in unix Yes, you can. Just doing it this way right now.
Suggest Massa Gates is up at the BIG HOUSE
giggling whilst one of his girly boys read
him this article an all the comments it
generates. Look up the word and see if
it don't fit.
j.