Posted by Industrial Mineral on 11/02/05 21:12

Win DVD said it could not play CGMS, which is a copy protection either put
there by the broadcaster of Sony when it recorded the video from cable.


"Industrial Mineral" <industrial.mineral@nospam.net> wrote in message
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>I bought a sony set top dvd recorder and recorded a movie from cable. It
>used a weird format. The folder was DVD_RTAV. and inside it were files
>VR_MANAGER.IFO and VR_MOVIE.VRO.
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> The dvd in my computer will not play the video, only the recorder that
> made it will play it. I took the expensive Sony recorder back and told
> them it did not work. I got my money back. If this is the furure of
> video recording, it sucks.
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> I can record ro capture the same videos from cable to my computer with a
> ati video card in it and burn a dvd using win producer, and they play in
> any player. I was trying to get rid of the computer beside the TV, by
> using a set top recorder, but the Sony model sucked. It recorded fine,
> picture was great, but it used a weird format that nothing else would
> play, so I dont want it or the format.
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> I went to vegas with the money from the returned dvd recorder and said
> fuck sony, while rolling the dice at the crap tables.
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