Intel SandyBridge... I don't get it.

[solarflow99]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:25:24PM -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
>> At my house I get much more than basic cable using the Rogers cable tuner
>> box at the main TV. The TV tuner card in my PC also recieves the cable
>> signal without an external tuner box. I am able to watch and record any
>> cable channels from 2 through 70 inclusive.
>>
>> With all the talk of going digital for TV broadcasts, I do wonder how the
>> signals on cable TV may be affected at some point. I hope Rogers won't
>> drop all analog signals off the cable but I don't think I would be too
>> surprised if I heard of plans to do that at some point. It would be a big
>> hassle though for people with VCR's and DVD recorders. They would need
>> lots of additional converter boxes and/or digital/HD tuners until the
>> recorders come with HD compatible tuners in them.
>
> HD compatible tuners are useless in rogers teritory since they encrypt
> everything.  The US is much better off since at least local stations are
> supposed to be unencrypted so a digital tuner could actually receive them.
> On the other hand I don't believe they are allowed to let it record
> above SD resolution from that signal.  Not sure.

I think the lower channels are supposed to be unencrypted still, I
just wonder how unbreakable their encryption will be this time.
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