Text 2477, 65 rader
Skriven 2005-02-11 10:05:06 av Adam Flinton (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 2476 av Rich (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: MS and Macrovision join forces
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From: Adam Flinton <adam_NO_@_SPAM_softfab.com>

Rich wrote:

>    You didn't answer the question asked.  Sure, if you have a video
> capture device that ignores or strips macrovision then as far as
> software is concerned it simply doesn't exist and any software would
> support it.  The question asked though was whether there was free
> software that supported the case when macrovision protected content is
> presented to the software.
>

Show me some PC hardware which does present the pulses etc to the software.
None of my PCI TV cards do this.

So is MS going to make it part of being "Windows friendly hardware" that if
you're getting a TV stream in, the device must report macrovision?

Why would a TV card maker put Automatic Gain Control into a TV Card? No TV'es
come with it (otherwise macrovision wouldn't work at all) so why would TV card
makers?


>    You also didn't ask the second question asked.  Is this supported
> legally?

OK in your bizarre land, AGC must be built into any device which is a analog
recording device (under your DCMA) but that's the beauty of a PC in that a TV
card can simply be used to watch TV or record.

Imagine just for a laugh if you were to put AGC cicuits into all TV'es, that
would be a marvellous way of killing Macrovision.

Any TV card maker which put AGC into it's TV cards would see it's sales fall
off a cliff because people would chuck their VHS into the player & turn on
their TV watching program, hit play on their VHS &........oh look at the
quality of that "good".

>  Please don't answer that there is some jurisdiction somewhere
> with whatever rules.  Let's make it simple for you.  Legally world wide.
>

I know you may not get out of the states much but are you cognisant of the
concept of "sovereignty". Assuming you are, I assume "Legally world wide" was
some sort of attempt at humour.

A can of beer is not legal world wide. A can of coke is not legal world wide.

American beef is not legal world wide.

Microsoft Windows itself is not legal world wide (how are the sales into North
Korea?).

All that matters is the economic power of the countries/groups of countries
(e.g. the EU) & what their laws are & how much you want to sell into that
market. As it is the US market is now smaller than the EU one & is vastly
smaller than the "World less the US" one.

Why do you think most DVD players are now "region free" (at least outside of
the US)? Coz we're a bigger market & we don't want region encoding?

Adam

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