I have a samsung DVD recorder that I want to hook up to my TWC HD box so I can have a hard copy of some football games, not it's not an HD dvd recorder, and I wouldn't be recording HD channels, I'm wondering if the HD box with my non HD dvd recorder is creating my issue. My cable box was installed by TWC. I am using simple AV cables that go from the dvd recorder to the tv. I then have a coax going from the output on the cable box to the input on the DVD recorder. Says no signal on the DVD recorder as far as finding the channels through the cable box. The regular feature of watching DVDs is fine, but I'd like to be able to record (non HD channels of course) to have hard copies. Any solutions?

10/17/2008 5:04:32 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrovision

10/17/2008 5:21:01 PM

I have no idea what your point is, it's bascially the same idea as recording stuff onto a VHS back in the day but just digital

10/17/2008 5:31:51 PM

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if you read the page, you would have picked up on the fact that the stream coming from your STB is probably going through a macrovision chip.

Quote :

"Analog Copy Prevention A DVD recorder receiving a data stream encoded with Macrovision's legacy ACP copy prevention signal will simply display a message saying the source is "copy-protected", and will pause the recording. This is achieved through a signal implanted within the offscreen range (vertical blanking interval) of the video signal—either physically recorded directly on the tape (as with VHS) or created on playback by a chip in the player (as with DVDs) or the digital cable/satellite box (as with all HDTV programs being down-converted to standard definition)."

Quote :

"Digital Home Entertainment Macrovision provides a variety of software and hardware ingredient technologies for consumer electronics devices, particularly those with video recording or playback capabilities. Its heritage product is a technology for discouraging the copying of video through analog interfaces of consumer electronic devices. A companion product called RipGuard is designed to discourage ripping of video DVDs using a personal computer. More recently, through its acquisition of Mediabolic, Macrovision has begun developing and marketing software components for enabling video playback in consumer devices. Macrovision's home entertainment technologies are incorporated into the vast majority of all DVD players, digital cable/satellite set-top boxes, personal computers, Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) such as TiVo, and Portable Media Players (PMPs) such as the iPod. Macrovison: Digital Home Entertainment"

this may or may not be your problem.

the coax output of your cable box modulates its video/audio signals onto one channel, usually 3 or 4. try tuning the dvd recorder to that channel.

[Edited on October 17, 2008 at 5:43 PM. Reason : .]

10/17/2008 5:36:58 PM