That would allow you to record the unencrypted SD and HD locals without the need to mess with the Verizon box. Since we're an all-Mac house I'm looking into getting the Hauppauge 1212 HD-PVR to get around this at a reasonable price.Īs an alternative, you could buy a QAM tuner for your Mac like the Elgato EyeTV. I knew FOX was a pita about arbitrarily setting the flag, but was not aware the others were doing it too. I've archived many broadcast shows to our Macs over the years via Firewire, both while we were with Comcast and now with Verizon FiOS, but it is just recently that almost every recording I try to archive - broadcast or otherwise - has the flag set to Copy Once. If you want a standalone HDTV DVR that ignores those flags, then you can buy a wrote: If you want to record unencrypted HD local channels with your Windows PC, I suggest picking up a QAM tuner like the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250. Motorola does that with their equipment, regardless of provider.
But there's nothing that says an affiliate or specific manufacturer can't observe it on their own equipment. You can still record those unencrypted channels with a PC QAM tuner, and other DVRs like TiVo also ignore the broadcast flag for the purposes of transfers/downloads.įederal courts already eliminated the legal requirement to observe the broadcast flag. Motorola STBs and DVRs encrypt Firewire output of any channel with the broadcast flag. Some FOX and CBS affiliates are known to set the "broadcast flag." It doesn't affect anything except Firewire output. Cox is notorious for setting everything to "copy once" while TimeWarner in the past often set everything to "copy freely"ĭoes anyone know who we can bring this problem up with? The FCC perhaps? They are now "copy once" instead of "copy freely" which is what all broadcast media is supposed to be set to.Īccording to what I've researched online, the broadcasters (NBC, CBS, PBS, etc) can accideltally set the flag to "copy once" but it is far more frequent that the provider (Cox, Comcast, Verizon.) sets it. The "broadcast flag" on many over-air network TV shows now appear to be set incorrectly.
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