Selectable Output Control is a technology mandate promoted by movie studios to protect the “early” distribution of movies over cable television. It’s a battle over the video outputs on the back of your cable box or DVR. Who gets to control which outputs you can use—the movie studios or you? On May 7, 2010 the FCC decided that the […]
Read moreMore choice is good. Now the wait is on for the first reviews and how it stacks up against the Ceton card. What you’re looking at here is a picture of the board that makes the new HDHomeRun CableCARD tuner work. You might notice the four squares on the right, those are the tuners, yes there are four — […]
Read moreNice amount of selections out this week. I haven’t seen Daybreakers yet, but I’m always a fan of some nice vampire action, this one with a twist in that the vampires run the world. I saw Legion with anticipation, and was quickly disappointed. Edge of Darkness was a pretty decent thriller from Mel Gibson, with some nice surprises throughout. If […]
Read moreThere’s just so many things wrong with this, but i’ll let you all begin the discussion. It’s such a ridiculous argument to justify getting their way. As if this will stop ANY piracy. Once again, legitimate honest consumer loses out. ”We are unsure when the FCC has ever before given private entities the right to disable consumers’ products in […]
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