Steve Schear writes: > All it means is that inexpensive Component Analog Video to HD-SDI > converters, primarily targeting professionals but widely available to > anyone with a CC, will appear and consumer gear will start sporting HD-SDI > inputs.
I don't understand your optimism. The definition of analog video input device includes that device. The term "analog video input device" means a hardware device, other than a professional device, and any associated firmware or software, that is designed -- (A) to receive an analog video signal in a covered format or to read an analog signal in a covered format from a prerecorded medium; and (B) to record or digitize such signal, or to alter such signal in a way that affects the state or passage of the rights signaling system if present in such signal. (Covered formats are enumerated by the Director of the Patent and Trademark office in an administrative proceeding.) The definition of professional devices excludes something that nonprofessionals often purchase; it is much stricter than "primarily targeting professionals"! If a device is marketed to or is commonly purchased by persons other than those described in subparagraph (A), then such device shall not be considered to be a "professional device". -- Seth David Schoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | This is a new focus for the security http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | community. The actual user of the PC http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | [...] is the enemy. | -- David Aucsmith, IDF 1999 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio