Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
The logic is that Humax has to toe the line with regard to the requirements placed on them by their licence to use the Freeview EPG data. The DRM system as implemented has features we have rarely (if ever) seen invoked - such as the ability to limit the number of copies made to USB. Encryption to internal HDD is a pre-requisite for enforcement of rights management when required, regardless of whether it is StDef or HiDef content.I must say, the logic behind the whole encryption/decryption thing has always had me entirely baffled. Can't see the point in encrypting SD recordings, when the vanilla box just decrypts them if you ask it to copy to an external drive. (HD is another story of course.)
DVB-T receiver dongles for PCs, which natively provide in-the-clear data which can be saved directly to disk, don't have access to the EPG and have to use Internet programme guides.
I don't entirely agree with GT's previous remarks about the key to decryption - the fundamental feature (or flaw) of the HDR-FOX that enables on-the-box automatic decryption is that the HDR-FOX includes a DLNA server while the Foxsat-HDR does not, and it is possible to trick the server into streaming the HiDef content as an unprotected stream. Previously, analysis of the .hmt file flags only enabled decryption of HiDef by USB copy with manual intervention.
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