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Did they say anything about DRM anywhere? The interface has 'Rent' and 'Buy' buttons in the previews, but it seems unlikely that the commercial content they're demonstrating will be available without DRM.

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So most of the current connected TV platforms already run some flavor of Linux, what this is about is the TV presentation layer for things like movies and navigating with a remote.

In most of the cases to date the CE manufacturers have dictated the DRM (and video codecs) supported since it will usually be baked into the hardware video decoder in the SOC. Ubuntu will just support whatever the CE manufacturer decides to support.

There is zero chance of content without DRM and probably requires locked hardware too. Boxee and Android (cant rent movies on rooted devices) had those requirements for content deals, Ubuntu won't be any different.

I can't help wondering if that won't conflict with Ubuntu's open source philosophy in the long run. By abiding to content owners ever growing restriction's, won't Canonical eventually give up open source solutions?

Doesn't Canonical already have proprietary closed source projects, the server behind Ubuntu One for example?

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