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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 13418" data-attributes="member: 174998">Indeed. And regardles of location of TV licence, one should be free to choose the reception equipment. What if every record company decided to adopt the same principles as our supposedly free satellite market?&nbsp; Sony might decide that all their artists would only be on CD-S format. Polygram might decide it was in their interests that their releases are in CD-P format. Warner might insist on only using CD-W format. In order to listen to all of those artists, we'd have a stack of different CD-players at home. Well that's exactly the situation we have with satellite TV. I already have a very powerful and flexible receiver, capable in principle of receiving ANY digital broadcast using a CI module. It also has a hard disk for recording. And it has an inbuilt positioner etc. If Videoguard were available in CI CAM form - as EU legislation had previously dictated - then I wouldn't need my Sky Digibox or my minidish. I could have everything through my Echostar DVR7000 and the main steerable dish. I could integrate the Sky channels with my other favourites, rename/resequence as desired, and I wouldn't need a Sky+ system since I could record already onto the HDD of the 7000. Perhaps we are supposed to think ourselves lucky that they didn't adopt a bespoke transmission format, forcing us all to have both a PAL TV and a PAL-S TV... 2old</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 13418, member: 174998"] Indeed. And regardles of location of TV licence, one should be free to choose the reception equipment. What if every record company decided to adopt the same principles as our supposedly free satellite market? Sony might decide that all their artists would only be on CD-S format. Polygram might decide it was in their interests that their releases are in CD-P format. Warner might insist on only using CD-W format. In order to listen to all of those artists, we'd have a stack of different CD-players at home. Well that's exactly the situation we have with satellite TV. I already have a very powerful and flexible receiver, capable in principle of receiving ANY digital broadcast using a CI module. It also has a hard disk for recording. And it has an inbuilt positioner etc. If Videoguard were available in CI CAM form - as EU legislation had previously dictated - then I wouldn't need my Sky Digibox or my minidish. I could have everything through my Echostar DVR7000 and the main steerable dish. I could integrate the Sky channels with my other favourites, rename/resequence as desired, and I wouldn't need a Sky+ system since I could record already onto the HDD of the 7000. Perhaps we are supposed to think ourselves lucky that they didn't adopt a bespoke transmission format, forcing us all to have both a PAL TV and a PAL-S TV... 2old [/QUOTE]

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