[plug] HDTV Card ... ?

[Michael Holland]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Dave Dartnall wrote:

> What are the implications for us in Australia? Is there a similar

Not much. Nothing new here. Free-to-air digital TV in australia has no
encryption or other DRM. Any change to that would kill all the existing
STBs out there.  None wants another DVD/DeCSS debacle either.
  The US is very different. People get HDTV mostly by cable, on a totally
different system.

But I fear the US movie companied may refuse to license HD versions of
movies for unencrypted broadcast here.
  The HDTV in Australia is a bit of a joke really. Only 9 and 10 transmit
any HD at all. ABC 'hd' is upconverted from low-def source. 7 and SBS 'hd'
is the exact same 720x576 as SD. Examples of the few HD programs on 9 and
10 include Americas Funniest Home Videos, and morning infomercials.

> Linux-compatible HDTV card available here for our (different?) hdtv

Digital TV here is DVB-T. All cards sold here will do HD. And the 2.6
kernel has built-in drivers.

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