Posted by Donald Link on 10/26/05 07:05

I am staying away from Sony recorders in general, including DVD burner
and Players. I getting to believe that, since Sony is such a big
producter of media projects, they are even more dogged in building any
kind of copy protection into their product. Even to the point of not
coping non-copy protected programs.

On 25 Oct 2005 10:24:33 -0700, bill_nielsen_99@hotmail.com wrote:

>I have a new Sony RDR-VX515 DVDR/VCR combo. When I record from my
>Cox/Magnavox DVR to the Sony DVDR, every minute or so, a message screen
>will come up saying that the recorder can't record copy protected
>material. When I play back the DVD, there are blank screen dropouts
>and/or frozen images that appear every minute or so.
>
>Since the DVR does not have copy protected information on it, does
>anyone know why I'm getting these messages and what the workaround
>might be. I did not have these problems going from the same DVR to an
>older Philips DVDR, which has since died.
>
>I had seen one posting on Usenet that said the Sony couldn't record
>from Tivo. I'm wondering if I have a similar situation here.
>
>Thanks in advance for any advice you can provde.
>
>--Bill Nielsen

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