People make feature requests.
I am only asking you consider supporting Cable TV Tuners. I assume the legal and financial hurdles were enomous, but apparently not so much. The following text was posted on AVS and details the technical and licensing requirement to support something like the Ceton IniniTV devices.. Most of this would include the SiliconDust Ocur Cable Tuners as well.
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There is no CableLabs license required to receive content from the InfiniTV. All you need to do is implement the DRI (to get video at all/tuner control) and implement PlayReady (to get Copy Once) content. The DRI spec is at
http://www.cablelabs.org/specificati...I04-100910.pdfRegarding PlayReady, you will need a PlayReady license from MS. Details are at
http://www.microsoft.com/playready/l...echnology.mspxPlayReady requires a $5,000 "one-time license" fee and "$10,000 certificate fee" for each "major release"
While it's not free, I don't think that's unreasonably high. However, keep in mind that implementing PlayReady will require meeting the terms of that license agreement (protecting the content all the way through, etc).
I think its very likely that InfiniTV content will be accessible by things other than Media Center in the future.
Regarding the SageTV people, it is my understanding that the CEO is draconianly against DRM. Unfortunately, I wouldn't count on them doing it for that reason, though I agree that they would otherwise be an excellent candidate.
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