http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/ Engadget Comments for TiVo 7.2 OS adds red flag content protection "feature" http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Tivo might as well go bust for all i care! nice introduction to PVR (i had 2 tivo model 1's ) but wouldn't touch them now with a really large barge pole]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/I am sick of this. More and more shows are getting clipped also, I don't know if eveybody is noticing this, but lately networks seem to be tripping up Tivo by a minute or two ro three. Piss me off.

Time to get to work on the PVR idea. SageTV is good I hear.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/
I (and a lot of other very happy Canadians) am happy that the 7.2 software was released 'cause it's added support for Canadian TV. Finally! That means no more PC sitting around, cluttering up my space, just so that I can use it download local channel guide info for my hacked TiVo and spending a hundred hours reading forums to get the damn thing to work. Now I can enjoy what you ungrateful bastards have been enjoying for years.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/
And NOT A SINGLE SHOW has been copy-protected - EVER - by TiVo.

The fact that this happened this time was a BUG. TiVo's software mis-read some data as a copy-protection flag.

The feature being there is a non-issue since no networks utilize it. And the fact this this one person saw it happen is nothing more than a ill-placed bug.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/
And stop flaming where you know not wherof you speak (yeah, you'll take that to heart, I'm sure...)]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/
#17, you're also right. The copy protection has been in place for the DVD burner/TiVo's for a long time now. You can't transfer a program from one TiVo to a TiVo burner and then burn it. It won't let you.

This is a long time coming, but no one cared to complain about it before because it's a standard Macrovision encoding. But now that there is a real world glitch with it, everyone comes out of the woodwork to complain about it.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/
Seriously, you are acting like a jerk.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/
This is part of the MacroVision license, and the same flags are honored by cable company DVRs, and yes, you can be fairly certain any new DirecTV DVR will honor them as well. Just about ever VCR, DVR, DVD Recorder, etc, you can find has a MacroVision license. (You MUST have one for DVD.) And the license requires the product to honor the various control flags. And yes, it probably will show up in MCE if it isn't already, MS has pledged to improve their DRM and copy protection.

So if you want to avoid it completely, you should build a MythTV or FreeVo box.
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That's like saying the nuclear arms race is a non-issue because there aren't currently any nukes whistling through the air over our heads.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/
So there really is no danger other than a one in a million bug hitting your TiVo.

I record dozens and dozens of shows on a TiVo AND a ReplayTV every week on many, many channels and I've never seen this.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/14/tivo-7-2-os-adds-red-flag-content-protection-feature/Dec 19th 2005 1:25AM