there isn't a way that this could be circumvented with a device with linux ported to it? it seems like there would be a groupthat would likely do this for at least one HDTV device...making it a simple edit to a source (maybe a config) file or two (or applying a patch when compiling) for the video to be recorded. though if it could be implemented at a hardware level, that would make it much more difficult. would something like the HDTV version of deCSS (that is, decrypting the signal...) be possible. that would make things a lot easier.