protected content

[davisplaid]

Previosly this year I have had no problem recordeding football on my directv dvr and then burning it to cd....the last two matches (one on FSC and one on Setanta) I've tried to do this for have giving me a 'protected content' error message and won't let me burn. I imagne there is nothing i can do, but I am a tech novice. Is there some way to turn this off...use a diffent kind of dvd..?

[GutBomb]

Previosly this year I have had no problem recordeding football on my directv dvr and then burning it to cd....the last two matches (one on FSC and one on Setanta) I've tried to do this for have giving me a 'protected content' error message and won't let me burn. I imagne there is nothing i can do, but I am a tech novice. Is there some way to turn this off...use a diffent kind of dvd..?
i think the latest software upgrade to directv's tivo boxes enabled macrovision copy protection, and your dvd recorder is picking up on that protection. there's nothing you can do other than hacking the tivo to put the old software back on, or hacking the dvd player to disable the macrovision detection. Both daunting tasks.

[danielmak]

Are you using TIVO or DirecTV's DVR (R-15?)? I have DirecTV with their recorder and everything has been fine (at least up to Man Utd-Chelsea and the 1st leg of Copa Sudamericana).

Either way, this is ridiculous. While the television industry might have had problems with people recording to VHS, they never created programming that could not be recorded. I know DVD technologies create new problems/issues but the ability to record programming should still exist. Take care.

[GutBomb]

well the reason tivo enabled these changes was so they can limit the "archive" possibility. the tv industry has always been against archiving of recorded material, because they intend to sell dvd box sets of tv series. the tivo itself acts as an effective recording device to use as a "record now, watch later" mechanism, so to prevent archiving they don't let you offload recordings to a permanent storage device like a dvd or a videotape.

[Kryptonite]

Either way, this is ridiculous. While the television industry might have had problems with people recording to VHS, they never created programming that could not be recorded. I know DVD technologies create new problems/issues but the ability to record programming should still exist. Take care.

well the reason tivo enabled these changes was so they can limit the "archive" possibility. the tv industry has always been against archiving of recorded material, because they intend to sell dvd box sets of tv series. the tivo itself acts as an effective recording device to use as a "record now, watch later" mechanism, so to prevent archiving they don't let you offload recordings to a permanent storage device like a dvd or a videotape.



It IS interesting to see this problem just surface now, years after people originally learned about recording TV shows to VHS, or even setting their VCR to automatically record while they're away from the house. I have VHS tapes of Simpsons episodes that I recorded when they premiered.

And the TV industry has a problem now, but not then? I think it's a little deeper than that...Back then, you could make a copy of something, but distribution was extremely limited. You had to find someone who had a VHS copy of something, hook your VCR up to theirs and record. Now, it's possible to make a pristine copy of a TV show with no quality loss, upload it to the internet and spread it to all four corners of the world.

[dustcowpoke]

I hope this doesn't happen as I already bought a DVD recorder for someone for Christmas. I know they have a DVR and that is how they would like to get matches to DVD.