I am trying to tweek my HT setup.

I just recorded a killer program on National Geogrpahic HD (Ultimate Factories, Ferrari..cablevision 162) to my HD DVR.

I then burned it to my DVD burner. When I watched the dvd I got an error around chapter five... Copyright protection...DVI/HDMI signal can not be copied. The same error exist on the DVR recoreded program.

I have my DVR/HD cable box to the Sony HD XBR LCD on HDMI. The DVD to the LCD is on component video because I only have one HDMI input on the tv..and I want the HD broadcast on the best possible signal.

Cablevision claims that the networks encode the broadcast in a manner that can determine if the signal is being viewed using HDMI or DVI connections and copyright only those broadcast.

I have no way of knowing what programming will have this copyright on it. If I could, I would swap out the HDMI for componenet prior to recording but this would mot really be feasible.

What I do know is that had I had my system setup on component video there would have been no copyright...confirmed on my neighbors DVR...he is on component.

So...do any of you know which networks are broadcasting with this copyright? If I could narrow down the programming I could react accordingly.

Also...on an HD broadcast...say one of the HD channels..how much signal degredation exists if I drop from HDMI to component video? If I am going to run into the copyright issue often, and the signal loss isn't a big issue, would it be worth it to abandon the HDMI connection?

Hoping someone has some input...

 

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I'll start by saying I only use quality, short as possible coax cables....


I recently went from my wall port (cable) into a high quality splitter, 1 input to 2 outputs.

from the splitter I used output#1 and delivered the signal to my digital cable box. from there I went hdmi to my plasma. channels are decoded and displayed properly. everything is the way it should be.

from the splitter I used output#2 and delivered it directly into the plasma's standard coax cable input. The picture is just as good. The channel #s are all messed up and in a strange order. 87.1 thru 119.4. The weird thing is this. It's pulling down all of the pay-per-views that my neighborhood orders. If someone is watching a movie, you can see the movie pause (for popcorn), or fast forward (boring parts in ****.

This also will help you score PIP if you're cable box is not delivering it for you already. COAX signal from the splitter is source1. And the cable box is source2. Now you have PIP TV.

This may or may not be a solution to your copyright issue. maybe you can run direct from a splitter with a coax cable. You'll have to be the judge of the picture quality yourself. I remember watching network football on it, it was amazing. Can't remember if anything else was HD, other than the networks.

 

Once the HDMI cable is attached, or possibly once the cable box pics up that I have 1080i selected the signal gets farked.

Oddly, I set the dvr to record a few hours of the same channel to see if it is that networks policy to copyright all of it's content and nothing else was impacted...I guess they try to determine what programming is going to have a high traffice value or possibly that which would be worthy of re-sale (??) and the hit that with the copyright. Who knows..and there-in lies the problem. I have lost any confidence that programs will be recorded properly...not knowing when/if a broadcast will be copyrighted...

BTW, I alrady have the PIP setup.

 

the only reason I brought that up is that it's sometimes difficult to score PIP on some boxes or tvs. thought maybe it would help another reader.

good luck with your issue.