Why PC Owners Should Care About The FCC’s Broadcast Flag
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Have you heard about the “broadcast flag?” It’s an anti-copying scheme for digital broadcasts that has been mandated by the FCC. The broadcast flag is essentially a two-part scheme: part one is the flag itself - a little bit of data included in the digital broadcast stream which says “hey, I’m copy protected media, you can’t redistribute me!”
Part two is the requirements for various digital receiving devices and other systems to honour the broadcast flag in part one. And this is where you, dear PC owner, come in.
Because as things currently stand, effective on July 1st of this year, every, and Aunty does mean every, new device capable of receiving a digital broadcast, and sold in the United States, must also be capable of receiving, recognizing, and honouring the broadcast flag. This includes, among other things, digital television tuners for your PC…
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Delo Karn
March 22nd, 2007
at 12:35am
Hi, The biggest and most expensive rip off by the FCC is the HD TV mandate. It seems to have gone un-noticed that to get a little wider and stupid looking TV picture at a price 20 times what onvential TV’s are currently priced at is only to save the TV stations the cost of converting wide screen movies to the original TV screen configuration. The movie industry really smuggled that one in with a trainload of worthless hoopla and BS called Lerreerbox TV. What a load of manure. I have looked at many wide screen DVD’s with the zoom on my VCR and the loss of a minimal amount of picture information on each side of the screen ( the main part of the picture information is centered anyway) doesn’t justify spendinding 20 times as much money for HD TV. It is as big an example of corporated control of congress and the FCC as the price of gas. Just another scam to make money for the stckholders and corporate giants in the Free United States??????