Confirmation of a DRM flag that could be controlled by broadcasters at will to prevent home recordings of selected shows was confirmed to exist last Monday night when users of Vista Media Center found that they could not record NBC prime time programming.
This means that broadcasters could potentially restrict home recording (which is often used for simply time shifting broadcasts) at profitable times such as DVD releases. Another use could be to force users to watch their program selection as broadcast, ensuring accurate rating collection (especially at sweeps time). In other words, yet one more reason to avoid anything that is labeled DRM.
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