Comment Re:Cable HDTV DRM (Score 1) 543
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.
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/intensit y/quality/
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.
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.
