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To: Joe NYC who wrote (228600)	3/20/2007 7:37:41 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Gee, we have no national identification cards for people but Hollywood is going to force a national identification of computers..." Actually we do have a national ID card. Your driver's license. Still, you have a valid point. All users are guilty until proven innocent on this issue.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (228600)	3/20/2007 8:38:14 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Joe: I take it that all this means is that like using a DSL or Cable connection, your card would have to log into the cable companies distribution network. Like cable modems, it doesn't give a damn of what is connected beyond. Only that you are a known user and are attached through that card and connection. All the rest is for Microsoft's and the OEM's ego. I strongly suspect that if Linux and MythTV were on the PC side, the cable company could care less. Its still a paying customer. My PcHDTV HD5500 card can do that as well and pick off OTA NTSC, DTV and HDTV broadcasts. In fact the Time Warner Cable HDTV set top boxes run Linux internally. They tell you to login in as xxxx, use password yyyy and the cable server will send your new decryption code for the current period. As you go between periods, the cable server will send you the next decryption key say a few minutes before the change. Note that doesn't require Windows, an OEM or a BIOS except for the transceiver serial number usually in its firmware. The only thing they will require is that you have a transceiver that can handle their modulation scheme like 256 QAM. It runs great in my A64 based PC. So that is how AMD (ATI) is likely to handle it. Keep to a well known standard that everyone (well almost (MPAA not withstanding)) can agree on. Pete