TiVo OS Update Adds Content Protection

generic-man writes "According to PVRBlog, TiVo's new operating system update enables content protection flags on a per-show basis. On some programs, notably syndicated shows, a red flag appears to indicate that the copyright holder has requested that TiVo devices not save a program past a certain date and that the program may not be copied to a PC using TiVo to Go. TiVo users were told to expect this style of flag only on pay-per-view and video on demand programming, and as such are upset that TiVo has restricted the capabilities of the receivers they bought and subscribed to use. The TiVo Community boards have some screen shots and firsthand accounts."

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BUG!!!!

[doormat]

This is a bug on behalf of the Tivo software...

See

http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2005/09/c opy_protection.html


Update: Jim Denney, director of product marketing for TiVo, said the instances of standard TV shows being affected by new copy protection restrictions likely are "false positives."

Denney said the copy protection is trigged by a flag in the video signal. The reports appearing on the Web appear to be cases where TiVo misinterprets noise in the signal as a copy protection flag, and imposes the restrictions.

"During the test process, we came across people who had false positives because of noisy analog signals," he said. "We actually delayed development (of the new TiVo software) to address those false positives."


Apparently they still didnt fix the issues.

Different Account of it over on PVRBlog

[beeudoublez]

Read: http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2005/09/tivo_72_os_adds .html
Quoted from one of the posters: This is a BUG!
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.ph p?p=3233152&&#post3233152
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.ph p?p=3236586&&#post3236586
TiVo recognizes the Macrovision flag but there have been NO cases of a network or studio actually utilizing it.
Even HBO whose websites says OnDemand stuff can't be DVR'ed... well, I could TiVo my OnDemand stuff just fine. I did all the time. That was before 7.2 and I don't have HBO any longer but it did work.
Again - this is a BUG. Neither the local station or FOX intended for this syndicated rerun to be flagged like this.
Are bug bad? Sure. But it's not worth getting all up in arms at TiVo about.

Re:Relevant question

[jvbunte]

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