[mythtvnz] TVNZ News channel to be encrypted

[Simon Green]

In case people missed it, in today's Herald:

"Also on a technical point, TVNZ communications director Peter
Parussini points out he was incorrect telling this column last week
that the two new TVNZ Freeview channels will be encrypted so they
cannot be picked up by Sky.

In fact, Freeview set-top boxes cannot deal with encrypted signals.
TVNZ says Sky still cannot play them. But it is prevented by the
Copyright Act, not by technology."

So all mythtv users can now rest easy :-)

  -- simon


On 01/05/07, Craig Box <craig@dubculture.co.nz> wrote:
> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/3/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10437037
>
> "No TVNZ 24 on SKY"
>
> "TVNZ will be encrypting its new family and 24-hour news channel for the
> Freeview channels so viewers cannot pick them up on Sky."
>
> I guess the "certified" Freeview devices will have to have a decryption
> key.  How will this impact MythTV users?
>
> Craig