I was about rush out and buy one or two more hdtv cards before the
notorious broadcast flag was enabled... when I went the site about
this whole mess and well.. GOOD news... the courts threw it out...

Yep no need to worry about it... {at least for now that is}...

So you have time now to get your cards...

Heres the link... to read more...

http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/

http://www.pchdtv.com/

Old news...
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3672
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4460
The problem with out fiends at the media companies is that they've got buckets of money, herds of lawyer and lobbyists, a morbid fear of techonological innovartion and not a clue about what's actually good for them. (I'll skip the rant about how most so called business leaders are nothing of the sort.) Witness the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth when the VCR and the DVD player appeared. They ran around screaming how the sky was falling and took Sony to court, bemoaning how they were going to lose their shirts and it would be the end of the industry and ... In each case it took them about 5 to 10 years to realize just how GOOD for them the VCR and it's descendants were...