Aaron

@dmccall

Yes, that is correct.

@S4Rs

At one time, a term of $10k was said to be the cost to license PlayReady. This is surely much less than the cost to pay engineers to develop a brand new solution.

@S4Rs

Hold your horses. There's still a lot of Copy Once material out there. Currently, WMC is the only software that can work with it. There's also no guarantee that the cable company won't just change everything to CopyOnce overnight and thus someone's investment in another software solution is fairly tenuous if it rides on CableCARD content.

Furthermore, the ball is really in Sage or others' court. MS can license PlayReady so if Sage or anyone else wants to work with encrypted CableCARD content, they can once they license PlayReady.

@dmccall

To your 1st question, yes, you can now break the tuners up individually such that up to 4 different machines could each be using one of the Ceton's 4 tuners simultaneously.

Regarding your 2nd question, under the old CableCARD rules, even Copy Freely content was still encrypted so you needed a PlayReady license to decode it. This rule didn't apply to Clear-QAM which is sent unencrypted.

Hopefully the next items to fall are truck rolls and external SDV boxes. The copy once restriction seems like a much tougher nut to crack.

@Alton
And it's not broadcast in HD either... Everyone is entitled to some guilty pleasures though.

Really great effort here, Ben.

I think we'll be able to catch every Tim Tebow pass on ESPN with his throwing mechanics analyzed to boot, so it's probably safe to pass on this offer.

I'm almost shocked that the studios have been so slow to do anything meaningful with BD-Live. BD-Live represents an opportunity to have a deeper connection between the studio and the consumer. I guess old habits die hard.

Universal has somewhat of an interesting feature where you can bookmark scenes and send them to your friends to view. Of course, the implementation is flawed in that it is useless unless your friend has the same Blu-ray. Wouldn't it be a wise idea to send this clip to anyone to promote the Blu-ray title to people who haven't bought/rented the film or who may not even have bought a Blu-ray player? If they had a server, and allowed users to send a link of the bookmark to their friends, they could easily accomplish this objective.

Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD was nothing... Keychest vs. Ultraviolet is really going to ignite the flames of debate. AVS Forum better beef up their forum servers.