Posted by Biz on 11/01/05 05:45

<bill_nielsen_99@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for all who responded.
>
> The problem happens with recording HBO/Cinemax from digital cable, but
> not the other premium services (e.g., Starz, Showtime or standard cable
> channels). HBO has a CGMS-A FAQ
> (http://www.hbo.com/corpinfo/cgmsafaq.shtml/) that indicates that they
> now encode their signals with CGMS-A copy protection. For linear
> (scheduled) programming" they allow Copy Once. I used disks formatted
> for DVD-RW VR, which is the only recording format that supposedly
> supports Copy Once, but this didn't work. Unfortunately, my Sony is
> treating HBO/Cinemax signals as Copy Never and I can't make the one
> copy that I am entitled to make.
>
> Neither Sony or Cox tech support had any suggestions that helped
> recording directly to DVD. Cox suggested copying first to VHS (which
> does work OK) then dubbing VHS to DVD. This wasn't the solution I was
> looking for as I would see a noticable degradation in quality.

You will not be able copy a CGMS-A signal from a DVR onto any other digital
device that respects the copy once signal...you already did copy it once, to
your DVR just like I wrote above...So until your cable company comes out
with a digital box or DVR with a built-in DVD recorder(meaning never) you
will not be able to do what you want.

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