Can you record from 169Time to Hipix/MyHD?

Interesting. Ron (dr1394) recently explained to me that in the typical use of 1394/DTCP, even if the source wasn't transmitting on the broadcast "channel" (I forget the proper 1394-speak), anything on the bus could listen to its stream, whatever channel it was actually sending on, and that the source would exchange encryption keys with anything on the bus which could "show the proper credential". I was asking him to clear up some misconceptions I had about the protocol (having only read the specs, without programming for it). I was also trying to get him to confirm that a "push" model could be implemented, which is what I'm expecting the Dish 921 to use, since it's been asserted that its 1394/DTCP connections are exclusively for archiving to tape and cannot be used to view a recording on a 1394/DTCP equipped monitor. He grudgingly admitted that such a thing was possible, but couldn't imagine why anyone would do it. I do--to rigidly limit the use of 1394/DTCP so that the studios won't throw a hissy fit about the presence of the connection on your device. If the PVR will only send video over 1394 at its own discretion and will only communicate with peers which it can identify as being VCRs, you don't have to depend on DTCP for security--the PVR can simply refuse to move any program marked "Copy Never" or "Copy No More" over 1394. Of course, it shouldn't ever have any programming marked "Copy No More", but who knows.


By "push model", I refer to a recording paradigm of archiving to tape from a PVR where the PVR controls the recorder, like TiVo's archive function. Sounds like the AVX-1 implements just such a "push", I'll-only-give-video-to-a-VCR model.


Do you have to program recordings through the DTC100 or AVX-1, or can you do a timed recording initiated by the VCR?


-- Mike Scott