Some may argue, the manufacturer should have these features enabled too, as the above broadcasters might have clear channels aimed to advertise their subscription packages now or in the future, and each party would benefit from having them watchable by potential subscribers. Of course, encrypted channels will still remain protected, and intellectual property preserved. DN lawyers clarified, primary method of content protection for the broadcaster is elaborate signal encryption & decryption technology, and not a signal broadcast standard selection. Because broadcast related or other standards by their nature are for common use, and content encryption scheme is usually proprietary by nature. Now, I wouldn't speculate here, why a particular manufacturer has enable a selected chip feature subset. But it sounds obvious that enabling all chip features would benefit parties even more while abiding the law. Despite DSS and DCII solutions are proprietary as opposed to DVB, they said to be obsolete and inferior, and in the process of being replaced by DVB-S2 by relevant broadcasters. If patents were issued on those solutions they have possibly expired by now. That's why, I think, Broadcom incorporated the solutions into their chips, and sells them freely.
