Recording of this content is prohibited by the content provider

[uri...@gmail.com]

Hi everyone. I've been recording the series "Prison Break" every
Monday. This week I happened to be sitting in front of the computer
when the recording started. After a second or two the following message
popped up and recording stopped:

"Prison Break was not recorded. Recording of this content is
prohibited by the content provider."

When I saw that, I fired up Media Center and navigated to the Guide and
told it to record the program again. This worked without any problems.
However, if I would not have been sitting at the computer at the time,
then the recording would have failed and I would have missed the show.

Has anyone else had this sort of thing happen? Is Fox content
protecting their shows? Is there anything I can do about it?

Thanks!

[Dana Cline - MVP]

I have seen postings here before about normal "network" tv stations having
content-protected shows. In every case, it happens to be the fault of the
local cable company, who somehow caused the copy-protect flag to be set. In
every case, contacting the cable company eventually got them to fix it. It
generally takes a few calls because first they deny it, then they claim that
they don't know how the technology works, then eventually you get someone
who resets a piece of their hardware and then it's all good...

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

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[Barb Bowman MVP-Windows]

then why did the OP state that

1. he was sitting in front of MCE and saw it pop up
2. he went to the guide and started recording the SAME show
3. it worked without problem - the same show at the same time right
after the error message

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[Gene E. Bloch]

I've seen on the NG remarks that sometimes the flag is set for a brief
time. Maybe it was on long enough to stop the timed recording, but it
was gone by the time the OP started the manual recording.

It seems possible to me...

Gino

On 4/06/2006, Barb Bowman MVP-Windows posted this:

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