Well, the courts slapped the FCC upside the head today in a victory for truth, justice and the American Way.
As of July 31, it was going to be impossible to record HDTV signals that were broadcast with a "record flag" turned on. At the behest of Hollywood, the FCC had mandated that this feature be added to HDTV sets/receivers so that we home users couldn't record HDTV shows (and possibly share them with each other).
Only those who bought hardware before the July 31 date, or cobbled together their own reciever/DVR package were going to be able to store their HDTV shows.
Posted by artandscience at May 8, 2005 07:09 PMWhen will they learn that attempts to over-protect their products will just hurt them in the end? Didn't the movie industry have this same freak-out with the introduction of VHS?
A side note: A month ago, I would have probably skipped this post altogether. But I just took a job editing a magazine for broadcast engineers. Suddenly, HD and digital media are popping up everywhere for me.
Posted by: theCallowQueen at May 17, 2005 10:12 AM