The Broadcast Flag — a now-defunct proposal to force manufacturers to get Hollywood approval for the features of digital TV devices — was supposed to encourage people to buy DTVs by reassuring the movie studios, which might have resulted in some movies finding their way onto TV. However, since the flag was killed last spring, digital TV devices have experienced a renaissance, as manufacturers have built devices without worrying about whether they would pass muster with some paranoid studio exec who believes that American TV viewers are all thieving scum.
"With the broadcast flag being struck down this past summer, a number of TV tuner card manufacturers are aggressively doing HDTV TV tuner card products for retail and I'm happy to say that all of them are bundling our software," Rakesh Agrawal, SnapStream president and CEO, told BetaNews.
(via EFF Minilinks)
