Windows provides, as part of the OS, the proper controls to enface the DRM and as such manufacturers can use that to build products that stream TV channels. Elgato would need to ensure they can properly operate with the flags as well as satisfy the content owners / providers that their solution will honor *all* the restrictions which necessitates having the proper protections in place. Even the copy freely have a broadcast flag, even if imposes no restrictions. It's not that some channels are streamed freely or the DRM itself, it's that there is a DRM scheme that must be considered in order to access channels from the Prime, regardless of which ones they are. You are only considering one subset of the entire spectrum of possibilities. I don't think you understand what is being said about DRM.

I originally posted to AVS because I didnt see a ton of traction on MacRumors on this topic, but its nice to see this topic has others interested in it as well. Esp since Elgato sells a European cable card-esque device cable of showing encrypted channels that works through EyeTV. Obviously this is to prevent showing garbage, but in the Primes case because it can decrypt encrypted channels through the cable card it still seems possible if I can figure out where EyeTV stores its device config info. It seems EyeTV scans that channel, sees that its encrypted and based on the connected device config will/won't show you the channel. The Prime will support the channel : program tuning model over the newer preferred Prime vchannel method, tuning definitely works with EyeTV.ĮyeTV has limited support for displaying encrypted channels, at first I thought this information was stored in the channel information EyeTV keeps, but it would appear after some testing this weekend that its actually a little trickier. 3.5.4 is using a different compile of libhdhomerun (a linux lib used to communicate with HDHR devices) and I believe the less modified version in 3.4.3 is what provides it better compatibility. Interestingly enough it seems like 3.4.3 does a better job at tuning and accepting channels than 3.5.4 does. If you have a strict firewall setup you'll have to unblock a UDP port I figured out: UDP port 65001 to 127.255.255.255 I'm working to figure that issue out as we speak. I have 2 HDHR-Primes, right now it can only receive unencrypted channels through EyeTV. As the person that posted the question I can say it will work.

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