Cannot record the copy-once program

If you're on Time Warner Cable, and have endured their gruesome forced migration from reliable third-party Passport software to their new, utterly dysfunctional in-house Mystro software, you'll know what I mean. PVRs running the Mystro interface are unreliable, recording the wrong show or no show at all. The program guide freezes and reboots the box if you try to look ahead more than six hours on a Monday during an odd-numbered month.

All but unusable. My DVR from my cable company only has 1Gb of memory which isn't too much since I have several TV shows I want to store since I go to school at night and might not watch them until the weekend. For my karate and cartoon shows since they are on very late at night, easiest to burn to dvd and watch it when I get to it. However last night's disk only burned about 15 minutes before the copy protect kicked in and i burned the error message for the rest of the 48 minutes.

From the discussion on the boards probably a false positive lockout signal from my cable company. Now I'll never know if the student was able to avenge his master or maybe it was his grandfather and sister.

We have a GB drive attached. IOW if your program is 2hrs 45 min you can set FR for and the disc will be full with one title of that length.

Most other DVDRs have canned speeds. Orsetto, I don't think time has much to do with it. I have devices from that are just as touchy as devices from The problem is simply that anti-copy is an artificial error, and real errors trip up the stupid system. Want my help? Ask here! If the anti-copy warnings are triggered during regular OTA or cable network programming, it's a mistake, but there's a good chance it's real for pay-per-view, on-demand, and premium cable channels.

Check the website for the cable network to find out what is copy protected. That's how I verified that HBO really does copy-protect its offerings. That can change the whole scenario dramatically: the recommendations I gave were for someone needing a "one and only" new recorder. Cable-supplied PVRs vary tremendously service to service: some protect everything on their hard drives to prevent external copying, others use selective protection or no protection. In your case, either the cableco recently "threw a switch" and protected everything coincidental to you getting a new recorder, or more likely as I said you backed a wrong horse when you picked a hyper-sensitive Sony Sonys are notorious for refusing to record anything , even Oprah reruns at 2 am.

Still, it depends on the price: the Magnavox refurb with GB HDD and full editing features remains far and away a better value than the Panasonic EA at the same or higher price.

Dubbing to any recorder from a cable PVR presents risk of failure due to real or accidental protection, however: you will probably need to purchase a filter after all, and wire it between your PVR line outs and the recorder line ins. Since you already threw money away on the Sony recorder, your cheapest option is to add a filter to your system so you can at least get some recording use out of the Sony.

Later on, if you can afford and they're still available to buy, you could look into upgrading your recorder with one of the recommended units. Filters are a giant pain to shop for, new or used prices are all over the place and none are exactly cheap. LordSmurf, the real-world results fall somewhere in the middle: all recorders of any vintage will respond to a "true" protection signal, but newer models are far more sensitive and prone to false-positives than older models.

A quick spin thru online complaints re current Sony, JVC and Toshiba models will turn up loads more disappointed "won't record anything" reports than you'll find for those same mfrs older units. Sorry to put my Granted, I don't have HBO or other premium stations, but this recorder has never failed me It was initially hooked up to my Samsung HDTV using plain video out cables, and video out from the cable box.

One day I hooked up an HDMI cable from the Panny to the Samsung, all of a sudden, certain timers weren't working, due to the copy protection nonsense. Unplugged the HDMI cable, and Skip to main content.

Find threads, tags, and users Current Visibility: Visible to all users. Hi, This error provide nothing. David is using the Copy Database Wizard. As a result, the ability to make a recording may be prevented. However, since the recordings are made on a hard drive instead of a disc, they are not permanently saved unless you have an extremely large hard drive. This is acceptable to movie studios and other content providers as further copies of the hard drive recording cannot be made. This is also one of the reasons that standalone Blu-ray Disc recorders are not available in the U.

The manufacturers don't want to hassle the recording restrictions imposed in the North American market. Final Take I doubt if anyone is going to knock on your door and arrest you for making a backup copy of a DVD if you are able to as long as you don't sell it or give it to someone else.

However, availability of devices that enable you to make DVD copies are in increasingly short supply as the MPAA, Macrovision, and their allies successfully win lawsuits against companies making software and hardware that enable the bypassing of anti-copy codes on DVDs, VHS tapes, and other programming sources.

The era of widespread recording of copyrighted content onto DVD, may be slowly coming to end as content providers prevent their programs from being recorded. There should be no reason for anybody to start criticizing you, unless they are insanely jealous. We tried it on two identical Samsung VR machines with different variations of input configurations with identical results A with expression makes a new record instance that is a copy of an existing record instance, with specified properties and fields modified.

You use object initializer syntax to specify the values to be changed, as shown in the following example:. The with expression can set positional properties or properties created by using standard property syntax. Non-positional properties must have an init or set accessor to be changed in a with expression. The result of a with expression is a shallow copy , which means that for a reference property, only the reference to an instance is copied. Both the original record and the copy end up with a reference to the same instance.

To implement this feature for record class types, the compiler synthesizes a clone method and a copy constructor. The virtual clone method returns a new record initialized by the copy constructor. When you use a with expression, the compiler creates code that calls the clone method and then sets the properties that are specified in the with expression. If you need different copying behavior, you can write your own copy constructor in a record class. If you do that, the compiler won't synthesize one.

Make your constructor private if the record is sealed , otherwise make it protected. The compiler doesn't synthesize a copy constructor for record struct types. You can write one, but the compiler won't generate calls to it for with expressions.

The values of the record struct are copied on assignment. You can't override the clone method, and you can't create a member named Clone in any record type. The actual name of the clone method is compiler-generated.

Record types have a compiler-generated ToString method that displays the names and values of public properties and fields. The ToString method returns a string of the following format:.

In the following example, ChildNames is a System. Array , where ToString returns System. String[] :. To implement this feature, in record class types, the compiler synthesizes a virtual PrintMembers method and a ToString override. In record struct types, this member is private. The ToString override creates a StringBuilder object with the type name followed by an opening bracket. It calls PrintMembers to add property names and values, then adds the closing bracket.

The following example shows code similar to what the synthesized override contains:. You can provide your own implementation of PrintMembers or the ToString override. Examples are provided in the PrintMembers formatting in derived records section later in this article.

In C 10 and later, your implementation of ToString may include the sealed modifier, which prevents the compiler from synthesizing a ToString implementation for any derived records.

You can do this to create a consistent string representation throughout a hierarchy of record types. Derived records will still have a PrintMembers method generated for all derived properties. A record can inherit from another record. However, a record can't inherit from a class, and a class can't inherit from a record. The derived record declares positional parameters for all the parameters in the base record primary constructor.