CableLabs has refused to approve DTCP-IP as a digital output prot...
CableLabs has refused to approve DTCP-IP as a digital output protection technology for one-way plug & play cable devices and DTLA members plan to appeal that refusal to the FCC, they told the Commission in an ex parte filing.…
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DTCP and DTCP-IP have won “widespread adoption,” said the DTLA members -- Hitachi, Interl, Matsushita, Sony and Toshiba. License conditions CableLabs plans to impose on DTLA and its licensees “would effectively give cable operators rights to exercise control over multiple devices along the home network,” the DTLA firms said. They also would “inhibit home network interoperability and disenfranchise products currently on retail shelves and in consumer homes that provide effective and robust protection to content without risk of theft of cable service or harm to the cable network,” they said. A CableLabs spokesman said his organization “continues to engage with DTLA and its member companies to resolve outstanding business and licensing issues in an attempt to come to a marketplace solution similar to those CableLabs has reached with Microsoft, Real and Motorola for IP-based outputs.”