Congress is considering passing the "broadcast flag" mandate, giving Hollywood and federal bureaucrats a veto over innovation in digital television devices and legitimate use of recorded programming. It's critical that you tell your Congressmen to oppose this tech mandate, but you can also defend your freedom by building your own HDTV PVR before a mandate goes into effect.
Since machines you build now will still work in high-def if any variant of the broadcast flag rule goes into effect, we'd like to make HDTV tuner cards easy to use now, while they can still be manufactured. We want to help the MythTV project work seamlessly with the pcHDTV card so less technical users can beat the broadcast flag. We'll also use these systems as benchmarks against which to compare the capabilities of later HDTV devices. We also want to hear about Windows and Macintosh HDTV tuner cards, with an eye toward helping people make the most of existing products.
In addition, if you've already seen devices limited by premature broadcast flag compliance, we'd like to hear about them -- to warn others away and to track the limitations flag rules impose.