Do you stream, record or watch live?  No matter how you consume your content, most of us can agree that the landscape is changing in regards to how content is pushed to our homes.  Streaming is becoming more prevalent.  More devices support it and as bandwidth penetration continues to grow, more people are turning to the internet for their TV.  How long will it be until we’re all consuming TV through the internet and will that full transition ever happen?
That’s what Ben Drawbaugh and Andrew Van Til are here to …

There seems to be a lot of confusion around the concepts of encryption and copy-protection when it comes to getting television from your content provider, so the DMZ is here to clear it up for you.
Before we get into defining what encryption and copy-protection are we must point out one thing that is perhaps misunderstood the most: copy-protection and encryption are not the same thing! With that cleared up, let’s dig a little deeper.
Encryption
Encryption is actually a pretty simple concept to understand.  When a cable company provides a video stream …

We used to have the full deal.  Digital Cable and all the trimmings.  HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, you name it.  Slowly, over the years we’ve cut back.  This was mainly because we realized that we simply didn’t use the services we were paying for.  We’re a movie family for sure, but we had already seen everything that was hitting the big movie networks.  Kinda pointless to pay for something you’ve already seen and have no interest in seeing again.
When we moved to northern New York, we started out on Dish Network.  …

We’ve all talked about the things that we love and hate about the cable television industry. We love the content. We love HD video. We love high speed internet. We don’t like high prices, and limited options. So what if you had the opportunity to sit down with someone from a big cable TV company? What would you ask them? Maybe you’re curious about switched digital video, or ala carte pricing. Maybe you want to know why they selected a terrible DVR that you’ve been stuck with for years. What would …

A new study has revealed that a full 26% of Americans have either changed their viewing habits or bought new equipment due to the digital television cutoff coming June 12th.
Knowledge Networks has been tracking reaction to the digital transition since 2006; the new data, collected from February to April this year, shows that, among TV households:

18% said they had bought a digital converter to adapt a standard definition set to receive digital signals;
8% bought a digital or HDTV set specifically in preparation for the transition; and
5% started …

I’ve admitted on the show and here that I don’t have that really in depth knowledge when it comes to different signals, codecs, containers, etc.,etc.,etc.  Luckily for us though, there is someone out there who does. 
We’ve talked about him on the Entertainment 2.0 podcast, as well as quoted his articles here and now, the Master of Media Center, Ben Drawbaugh of EngadgetHD, has posted a complete primer on everything you need to know about OTA and Cable HD signals.
From Ben’s article:
Typical for the tech industry that the term …