Just like efforts to close the
analog hole, our old friend the
broadcast flag (don't remember what that is and how it was
defeated? Take a quick trip
back to 2005 with us) has reared its ugly head again. Displaying the kind of tenacity rarely seen outside of horror movie villains and potential presidential candidates, some Vista Media Center users have apparently gotten the above popup while trying to record broadcast TV from NBC. Since the FCC regulation giving the broadcast flag its power to remotely disable your recording ability was overturned, not only should it not be enabled, there's no reason the system should respond if it were. The EFF's working with the makers of the
HDHomeRun to find out why this happened at all (although it's not the
first time); whether it's an honest mistake somewhere or if Microsoft slipped a bit of extra DRM into its latest OS.
[Via
EFF]
posted May 18th 2008 4:28PM
I've gotten the broadcast flag up here in Canada attempting to record shows on YTV through Rogers Cable for my daughter. Then that stopped and somehow now whenever I record and attempt to play back a YTV show, the CPU gets pegged at 100% and the quality of the recording suffers dramatically, rendering it unplayable.
No other channels have this that I've experienced and the Broadcast flag shouldn't even apply in Canada.
It's not the broadcast flag cause it's only happening to those watching NBC via cable, not OTA.
Not true, I got this same message a few days ago while trying to record OTA in HD. I remember spending about 20 min trying to find a way around it with no success unfortunately.
For additional reference, here's a thread from The Green Button about this issue that's quite a few pages long (49 to be exact..).
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/1/176207/ShowThread.aspx
Long live XP and third party apps. God bless bittorrent.
I had it happen to me on my OTA tuner on Monday night.
one way around it is to use a webtv and hook up a dvd recorder to it when recording, maybe a dvr will work the same a friend of mine got around digital cable recordings that way.. and yes he still uses webtv sometimes))
Wow, please let this NOT be a sign of things to come.
Trying to record American Gladiators was your first problem...