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Article #2748Re: Any way to *CREATE* Vcr+ (VCR PLUS) codes??? (please read)
From: Ken Shirriff
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 23:43
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 23:43
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In article <1993Jan04.223520.29065@rchland.ibm.com> lwloen@rchland.vnet.ibm.com writes: >I would imagine the manufacturer doesn't care a fig if the algorithm is >published. They do. >It would be in their interest, I would think, to _give away_ >the encoding algorithm to TV stations and any producer of TV listings, such >as a newspaper. They don't give it away; they don't even reveal the algorithm. They sell the code numbers to the newspapers. Ken Shirriff shirriff@sprite.Berkeley.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!sprite.berkeley.edu!shirriff From: shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Any way to *CREATE* Vcr+ (VCR PLUS) codes??? (please read) Date: 4 Jan 1993 23:43:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 Message-ID: <1iai2nINNjih@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <C0CED1.60H@metaflow.com> <1iaa91INNhgr@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan04.223520.29065@rchland.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hijack.berkeley.edu Keywords: VCR+ patent