{"id":996,"date":"2008-12-06T00:40:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T23:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2009-01-25T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:03:55","slug":"sky-built-in-copy-failed-during-november-star-trek-dvd-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Sky+ built-in COPY failed during November, Star Trek DVD mountain!"},"content":{"rendered":"

[As quoted in the Guardian SKY HASSLES: http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/blog\/2008\/dec\/14\/technology-letters-blogs-full<\/a>]<\/p>\n

If you caught my tweets<\/a> last month<\/a>, you may have noticed that I noted that my Sky+ box was generating copy protection signals preventing my DVD recorder from recording the episodes of Star Trek from Virgin One and Bravo. Without going into huge amounts of detail, I figured that any time a “What’s on next” caption appeared and occasionally during advert breaks, a Macrovision-like signal was issued causing my DVD recorder to stop recording.<\/p>\n

Whatever you may be thinking, I believe that I am entitled to record these episodes for a number of reasons. Firstly, I don’t have time to watch them live – I have a day job, a wife and a kid, time is in short supply. Secondly, the Sky+ hard drive is woefully small at 160GB, of which we get 80GB of personal space, whoopee (yes, I will be doing something about that later). Thirdly, I am simply recording what I would have watched anyway, I’m not recording it to keep per say…I’m happy to buy the DVD boxed set for that. And to be honest, Star Trek is *all* that I watch via Sky, all other programmes I could get via Freeview (if we had a decent signal where I live, moot point).<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Liam Westley<\/a>, today’s copy of the Guardian carried this article<\/a> by George Cole. Sky could be so good for you<\/em>…I don’t think so (sorry, couldn’t resist that, Gary<\/a>!) This explains a lot.<\/p>\n

In my humble opinion this is a huge FAIL for Sky. I had even gone to the lengths of buying one of these cables<\/a> in order to normalise the signal from the Sky+ box to the DVD recorder. Sadly that cable failed miserably<\/a>, dead on arrival…now I’m embroiled in the returns and refund process, more hassle…all thanks to Sky.<\/p>\n

I will of course be testing the COPY feature again this month. However in the meantime, I have some 20+ episodes of Deep Space Nine to catch up on…and I can’t dump them to DVD as I have been doing most nights for the last 8-9 months. Yes, I do have 100+ DVDs chock full of Star Trek to catch up on!<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: Sky+<\/a>, Sky<\/a>, fail<\/a>, macrovision<\/a>, CGMS-A<\/a>, Star Trek<\/a>, Guardian<\/a>, George Cole<\/a>, Deep Space Nine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[As quoted in the Guardian SKY HASSLES: http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/blog\/2008\/dec\/14\/technology-letters-blogs-full] If you caught my tweets last month, you may have noticed that I noted that my Sky+ box was generating copy protection signals preventing my DVD recorder from recording the episodes of Star Trek from Virgin One and Bravo. Without going into huge amounts of detail, I … Continue reading Sky+ built-in COPY failed during November, Star Trek DVD mountain!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[228,232,226,231,230,227,225,229],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","tag-cgms-a","tag-deep-space-nine","tag-fail","tag-george-cole","tag-guardian","tag-macrovision","tag-sky","tag-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}