Selectable Output Control
Selectable Output Control is a technology mandate promoted by movie
studios to protect the “early” distribution of movies over cable
television. It’s a battle over the video outputs on the back of your
cable box or DVR. Who gets to control which outputs you can use—the
movie studios or you? On May 7, 2010 the FCC
decided that the answer to that question is the movie studios, not
you.