So Tolerant and I have been enjoying having her digital TV plugged directly into the cable feed, and thus getting the strangely-numbered channels and “point” channels coming over the wire. It’s been kinda cool – PBS, for one, has several point feeds and there’s been some good stuff on.<\/p>\n
Well, we get to enjoy that no more. Comcast recently re-enabled their encryption system, which disables all of this extra functionality. They claim that their contracts with their providers require the encryption to prevent “unauthorized viewing”.<\/p>\n
From what I can see, it means that Comcast has a perfect excuse for making you rent an HD converter box to get the HD they broadcast.<\/p>\n
Bastards.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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