Protected broadcast signal error

[johncat]

Can anyone tell me why I am getting a popup that says "The Broadcast signal is protected from being recorded and can only be viewed. Recording will be terminated." when I am capturing from my All-In-Wonder TV? I usually capture (record) a few tv programs to watch later. After a little bit of capturing, I get the pop-up. It doesnt seem to be consistent on how long it takes before it occurs. I am capturing from a satellite composite connection. It does not stop my sceduled program from recording, but after the scheduled program is over, while it stops recording, it doesnt go away so therefore any later scheduled programs do not start until I click "OK" to close the error. I am not sure why it started doing this. I do not know if this error is coming from the ATI TV program, or where. Any thoughts?? John

[lordsmurf]

Not an error:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=246129

[Matt D]

It's coming from your card due to it detecting macrovision protection or at least thinking it detects it. It's an annoyance at best, as you can still record!

[guns1inger]

Copy protection for broadcast - it had to come.
Try find another piece of software to record with.

[lordsmurf]

It's not the software.
It's drivers and/or hardware, and pretty much every single capture card, DVD recorder and VCR comes with it these days.

See the link in my above post.

[Matt D]

Yeah Smurf, some Nvidia cards have the same problems due to WDM drivers. Damn thing won't let you capture even when the video is not protected in any way, and it doesn't matter which software you use.

[johncat]

Guys thanks for your replies!! It is hard for me to say what is causing this since I have upgraded Drivers, ATI sw version, etc and this started somwhere in the middle of this. Lordsmurf that was a pretty good explanation in your link. But it sounds gloomy. The only way to get aroound this "false protected error" is to by hardware to do so? The popup itself is not a problem, but I cant capture 2 or more programs without manual intervention to click "ok". There is no way to avoid that without spending money for a false copy protected signal? Thanks again for responses!!

[edDV]

Can anyone tell me why I am getting a popup that says "The Broadcast signal is protected from being recorded and can only be viewed. Recording will be terminated." when I am capturing from my All-In-Wonder TV? ... John

I've had this happen a few times with specific programs on my local PBS station over Comcast cable. This only has been detected by my ATI AIW-8500DV using MMC8.1 at the time. I thought it was just an errror on their part setting the record flag ... but an indicator of things to come.