Support for DRM protected content

[HarryH3]

Is there someone you can contact about individual DRM subscriptions?

CableLabs. Period. They are the one and only outfit that can certify a product for use on cable systems. Upfront cost, last I read, runs around $150,000 US for them to certify a solution. THEN you get to pay somewhere around $100,000 per year for the license required by them. The cable companies have done everything that they possibly can to make using a cable card as painful as possible. Why? Just in the US they make around $20 Billion per year on cable box and DVR rental fees. They really don't want us to use cable cards at all, but they still have a firm grip on the DRM aspect.

[scJohn]

Who cares. I dropped satellite a good 5 years ago and went OTA. I am 30-35 miles from the transmitters and they are spread over about a 40 degree arc. And I got trees. The good news is a live near the top of a hill. I use 2 indoor antennas. One connected to my TV and the other connected to my computer (internal tuner card) and a SD Connect.

SD, god bless them, is going thu the pain, aggravation, etc. of getting the DVR software certified for CableCard. They have been at for over a year now and still don't have it. Suppose to be pretty close for Android TV but Windows is proving to be very, very difficult.