cwr44
12-21-2007, 06:54 PM
My cable provide is Time Warner in Manhattan. On my Series 2 Tivo, no programs are copy protected except, I believe, a movie I got (and subsequently have deleted) from Amazon Unbox. On my new Tivo HD, with a M-card, over 50% of the programs are copy protected, even if they are not broadcast in HD. I don't know how it's decided what is copy protected. I thought I might be able to reduce the recording quality which would lead to the programs not being copy protected but this didn't work (and is not even possible for digital channels). I tried to switch to recording from SD channels instead of HD channels where both exist for a station, but even the SD channels are copy protected. Because of all this I have not been able to get rid of my Series 2. I now have 2 Tivo's sitting right next to each other recording the same programs: 1 to watch HD, 1 to be able to use TTG. I hope that someone can tell me how to legally get the HD to record without copy protection (through proper setting or whatever). Or, I at least warn people about to swich to HD that TTG may be pretty much useless after the switch.