If you ’re thinking the coming Windows Vista is going to let you use a CableCard instead of a place - top boxful to do whatever you want with your video , you might be let down .
Unless that PC is an prescribed Media Center Extender ( MCX)—such as the Microsoft Xbox 360 — you may not be able to snag digital overseas telegram capacity on a CableCard - equipped PC and then teem that video over your web to any another PC .
Hey ! Hey ! Wait a doggone second … .
Without that special - extra MCX voodoo , protected HD cognitive content wo n’t be viewable on anything but the PC on which the CableCards domicile . It ’s a closed - closed circuit system to keep those pesky pirate at bay .
This stream thing might seem like a small detail , but it will make it less convenient and sometimes inconceivable to move video recording around your house unless mommy says it ’s okay . That ’s right , the owners of the substance get to decide how you use it , not you . That reek .
Before long , there will probably be fortune of third - party devices with embedded Media Center Extenders ( the MCX technology is codification - namedPika ) , specially non - recording twist such as DVD player and keypads . But all those devices will give the message owners control over us , dictating what we can do with our video . This ca n’t be good .
Another MCE CableCard defect : No Streaming to Other PCs[CEPro ]
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