Couldn't record off cable with DVI connected

[nate39]

Last night I set the VCR to record after I went to bed. The VCR is connected with just RCA jacks and I have done this many times. The only difference is that I had hooked up a DVI cable last week which was a waste of time because the HD tv's sound connection for it is digital and the cable box's connection is RCA so the sound won't work, so I continue to use the component video to watch TV.

Last night was the first time I had tried to record anything since hooking up the DVI cable and when I went to watch the recording. There was a message from the cable box that my HDTV wasn't HDCP capable and so I need to be using component video to watch TV. It also said something about DVI in the message.

Does anyone have any idea what in the world happened with all that? I was recording with RCA video and sound jacks. Do you think because I had the DVI connected that this happened? But I wasn't recording HD content, let alone playing HD content. This makes no sense to me.

 

[Peter]

Welcome to the wonderful world of movie industry controlled device use.

What it says is that since your digital link (DVI) is lacking content encryption (HDCP) you are not allowed to run recordings off it. Your usage of digital content indicates that you've been attempting something illegal, so you're disallowed from using your stuff in that way.

At least that's what the movie industry thinks, and they've got enough lobbying force to strongarm it into the media devices.

As usual, it's not stopping any illegal activities at all, it's just annoying the honest and paying customer.

 

[Rage187]

Gotta love Comcast


There is another way to record over firewire and you can by pass the content protection. AVSforums has a big thread up on it.

 

[nate39]

So as long as I use cables that aren't DVI and HDMI they don't care?

AVS forum is rather huge, do you know where that thread is because they seem to say that such discussions aren't allowed?

 

[Peter]

Fear of MPAA and RIAA, what else. Digital copies are t3h ev1lz, and as you own a digital video cable, you are their prime suspect, not their valued customer. Even talking about modes of use that used to be perfectly legit (and still are!) is now considered suspect. The industry is taking away your consumer rights by means of technical restraints - restraints that have already proven to be zero percent effective against movie and music theft.