Unboxed: Sony Play TV

[FishyJoe]

a12331 said:

FishyJoe said:

It's unlikely this will come to the US because the cable and satellites control the access to content. Tivo was pretty much forced to cut a deal with Comcast or go out of business. They were supposed to implement Cable Card, however the support has been terrible destroying any chance for third party products to succeed.

In countries like the UK, they have laws that allow companies open access. In the US it's all in the hands of the cable and satellite companies. You can't decrypt their signal without their permission, which they refuse to grant because they want to sell their own hardware.

The only way Sony can get this to work in the US is to bend over to the cable companies and even MS is unwilling to do that.

not really most companies do that to make money, but you can easily record tv with many things, such as vhs, dvds, and even computers with tuner cards

 

 

HD content from the cable and satellite companies are all encrypted. The only content that is not encrypted are analog standard definition and over the air SD/HD broadcasts.