On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, John Drescher <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> From TFA, it sounds like what SOC does is enable the digital stream to tell<br>
> the STB to turn off any outputs that don't have content protection (like the<br>
> component outputs). It sounds to me like the implication is that the<br>
> general STB probably already has SOC implemented, but that the FCC does not<br>
> allow it to be used. What the studios want to do is get an exception to<br>
> turn on SOC for first-run movies. Of course once they get that foot in the<br>
> door...<br>
><br>
</div>I wonder how customers will take that when they can not watch new<br>
releases because of that and the cable company tells them they need to<br>
buy a new TV to fix this...<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><div><br>Which is exactly what the opposition is saying to the FCC (according to the article) - that it would unfairly penalize the early adopters who only have devices with analog inputs.<br>
<br>-Jerry<br></div></div>