Hollywood can't have that much leverage, surely? At the very least, a recorder that records OTA signals should be pretty much out of the legal clutches of Hollywood. And an HD DVR that supports unencrypted OTA signals and allows you to burn them to a standard Blu-ray disc would be extremely useful.
Of course, I'm not sure I'd spend $1,500+ on one, but I'm also not seeing why such a device has to cost more than $200+existing BD player price. The burning capability isn't going to cost all that more, a hard drive of decent capacity should be less than $100, and the tuner is probably around $20-30, with the BD player already containing everything needed to decode the OTA signals (MPEG2 + DD5.1)
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squiggleslash @ Dec 10th 2008 10:25AM
Hollywood can't have that much leverage, surely? At the very least, a recorder that records OTA signals should be pretty much out of the legal clutches of Hollywood. And an HD DVR that supports unencrypted OTA signals and allows you to burn them to a standard Blu-ray disc would be extremely useful.
Of course, I'm not sure I'd spend $1,500+ on one, but I'm also not seeing why such a device has to cost more than $200+existing BD player price. The burning capability isn't going to cost all that more, a hard drive of decent capacity should be less than $100, and the tuner is probably around $20-30, with the BD player already containing everything needed to decode the OTA signals (MPEG2 + DD5.1)