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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 801271" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi againI don't think you've quite understood the full situation. Let me fill you in. Software must be certified by CableLabs if it is going to be permitted to show anything other than &quot;copy-freely&quot; encrypted content. That certification process is costly and time consuming - it is unlikely we could afford it and certification might take a year or more. Further, it would require *huge* changes in MediaPortal, some of which are against the principles that this software, team, and community stand for (in other words we would have to close large sections of our source code and implement functionality restrictions to prevent circumventing DRM). Personally I think it would be unrealistic to expect MediaPortal to ever support non-copy-freely content unless Cable labs reduces the DRM restrictions. I don't like this any more than you do but that is what we have to put up with when DRM gets involved. To summarise: if your cable provider does not use &quot;copy-freely&quot; restrictions then it might be better to use WMC.mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 801271, member: 82144"] Hi again I don't think you've quite understood the full situation. Let me fill you in. Software must be certified by CableLabs if it is going to be permitted to show anything other than "copy-freely" encrypted content. That certification process is costly and time consuming - it is unlikely we could afford it and certification might take a year or more. Further, it would require *huge* changes in MediaPortal, some of which are against the principles that this software, team, and community stand for (in other words we would have to close large sections of our source code and implement functionality restrictions to prevent circumventing DRM). Personally I think it would be unrealistic to expect MediaPortal to ever support non-copy-freely content unless Cable labs reduces the DRM restrictions. I don't like this any more than you do but that is what we have to put up with when DRM gets involved. To summarise: if your cable provider does not use "copy-freely" restrictions then it might be better to use WMC. mm [/QUOTE]

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