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by shimber 806 days ago
Yikes, I thought HDMI was encrypted similar to DVD's "illegal number".

Here's bunnie talking about dealing with HCDP when building out the netv.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZeCvEa7OqI [starts around 14:30]

I see in the article they mention a more passive monitoring identifying "when there are pauses", but how could that hold up to any scrutiny?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...

https://github.com/bunnie/netv-fpga

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

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It is its decrypted and displayed in a protected container but the TV can still show overlays.

They aren’t injecting anything into the video stream they are just showing ads in the same way they’ll show a volume bar.