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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
possibly customized by sniffing the content of the video data.
If it means that they'll be allowed to break HDCP I might possibly consider allowing it for the side effects.
It’s not “breaking” HDCP. It’s the TV, it’s the receiving end which is doing the decrypting anyway.
Well the theory is that nothing in between the content source and the final destination should be interfering with the data stream. So, it has to decrypt the stream and then re-encrypt, which if they're going to be offering this as an update to existing boxes might just mean free decryption keys for everyone!
They're talking about doing this in Roku TVs (TVs with Roku software as the OS), not in external Roku streaming boxes. It would have access to the actual video stream at that point, in addition to knowing that you pressed Pause on the remote.
They could still show ads with just the external boxes; they'd know that you've pressed Pause and, perhaps, some metadata like the name of the thing being streamed. It'd just have less context. (I don't know the details for Roku apps and I'm assuming the boxes don't have access to the video being streamed.)
We happen to have two Roku TVs and two "dumb" TVs with Roku streaming boxes. I find it annoying that they advertise random things on the main menu screen; it'd be more annoying if it started showing ads when whatever we're watching is paused.