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The "honest mistake" was made by the thread creator. He believed that he could perform his own timeshifting.
Our Moderator/Administrator knows what this is about.
It's really about the new Digital Copyright bill that was recently tabled.
There are devices one can purchase that allow DVD recording on all channels received on a Bell receiver. They work through S-Video and/or RCA video connections. No one bothered to mention this. Distributors don't like devices which can convert analogue signals to digital recordings. DVD recorders perform this task well.
If this proposed law is passed, then these devices will become illegal in Canada. Then only approved PVR/DVRs will function and they will be under the control of the program distributor. Recorded programs will be erased or expire solely at the discretion of the distributor. Fast forwarding through commercials will be locked out.
In other words, the viewer will lose almost all control over his viewing habits.
I don't have any knowledge of the inner workings of Home Theatre PCs which are used to record video feeds, both SD and HD. However, I strongly believe that they will cease to function as recorders, if used legitimately. Microsoft has already stated that its Media O/S will obey all signals received wrt recording and playback. Hauppage (the video capture card maker) has said the same.
And don't believe that this proposed law is designed to protect the Creators. It is designed to protect the Distributors, the Status Quo, and to freeze out any innovators who might bypass these existing Distributors (like Bell ExpressVU). (1.5 examples: The recording industry has collected millions of dollars on copyright infringement lawsuits from Youtube. Not one dollar has gone to the Creators. Here's the 0.5. I cannot remember the name of the series, but it has recently been released on DVD. However, the music of the original broadcasts has been eliminated because the distributors don't want to share any revenue with the Creators of said music. I think this happened to Miami Vice, but the series I recently read about is another. That is, Digital Copyright laws are being used to gain revenue for Distributors, not Creators.)
And I guess that this comment, which was driven by this thread, will be moved somewhere else where no one can read it.
Our Moderator/Administrator knows what this is about.
It's really about the new Digital Copyright bill that was recently tabled.
There are devices one can purchase that allow DVD recording on all channels received on a Bell receiver. They work through S-Video and/or RCA video connections. No one bothered to mention this. Distributors don't like devices which can convert analogue signals to digital recordings. DVD recorders perform this task well.
If this proposed law is passed, then these devices will become illegal in Canada. Then only approved PVR/DVRs will function and they will be under the control of the program distributor. Recorded programs will be erased or expire solely at the discretion of the distributor. Fast forwarding through commercials will be locked out.
In other words, the viewer will lose almost all control over his viewing habits.
I don't have any knowledge of the inner workings of Home Theatre PCs which are used to record video feeds, both SD and HD. However, I strongly believe that they will cease to function as recorders, if used legitimately. Microsoft has already stated that its Media O/S will obey all signals received wrt recording and playback. Hauppage (the video capture card maker) has said the same.
And don't believe that this proposed law is designed to protect the Creators. It is designed to protect the Distributors, the Status Quo, and to freeze out any innovators who might bypass these existing Distributors (like Bell ExpressVU). (1.5 examples: The recording industry has collected millions of dollars on copyright infringement lawsuits from Youtube. Not one dollar has gone to the Creators. Here's the 0.5. I cannot remember the name of the series, but it has recently been released on DVD. However, the music of the original broadcasts has been eliminated because the distributors don't want to share any revenue with the Creators of said music. I think this happened to Miami Vice, but the series I recently read about is another. That is, Digital Copyright laws are being used to gain revenue for Distributors, not Creators.)
And I guess that this comment, which was driven by this thread, will be moved somewhere else where no one can read it.
Post 38 directed you to the answer the first time you asked the question in post 37 - there was really no reason to ask it again in post 42!