On Thu, 2005-06-10 at 17:16 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > > [rant] > > Take a lesson from this and watch what you purchase. DRM'd media is a > > pain and it will get worse if people keep paying for it. > > [/rant] > > Just saw this: > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1952 > > even people that take the MSFT (advertising) shilling are starting to agree. What does it stand for : Don't Remunerate Monopolies I wish... I have yet to buy a single song or movie online, and have no intention of doing so. Along this topic line, did you know that when using Media Centre to recored TV shows the program {usualy movies} can be copyright protected to only be available to play for up to a specified amount of time. I have been playing with it and recorded a movie {The Guardian} but didn't get a chance to watch for a couple of days. When I finaly sat down to watch it, I couldn't because the "Licence" had expired. I set it up and recorded it again, this time I checked the info before watching it, and it indicated that it would expire around midnight that day. I started looking into this problem and discovered that the movie would not even be able to be played on a mobile player or remote player, it would only be able to be played on the device that recorded it. I have looked at other PVR solutions including Myth, but I have digital cable and the cable company disables the rs232 control so I can't change channels. The only IR blaster I have been able to get locally is the one that comes with the MSFT Media Centre Remote and their is nothing that seems to be able to use it without spending days setting up obscure config files that are not documented well, except Media Centre. I have found a good tool to convert all the unprotected content to standard mpeg2 files. I was even able to figure out how to snag the protected content and convert it to mpeg2, but it required using a poorly documented tool and some sketchy tricks from a blog that I found but I was successful. Oddly enough that was the only movie that I have had the protection problem with. Good luck to all, and keep up the good fight.
