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Primosprimos,
The DMR-EZ48 is the current (2008) combo recorder in the Panasonic line. This and the DMR-EZ28 DVD recorder have digital and analog tuners, HDMI, upscaling and a number of other features. The 2008 models seem to have fewer problems than Panasonic?s 2007 models (that have a ?7? in the model names). For normal recording either of these models might be satisfactory for your use. Panasonics tend to be overpriced when purchased new. Missing from the DMR-EZ48 are essential menu-initiated copying features that allow the user to customize settings for Time Limited and Flexible Copying. The lack of these features in 2007 and 2008 combo recorders and limitations imposed by the front panel copying method makes these models somewhat ?user unfriendly.? With current model combo recorders there is very little advantage to a single machine with a VHS and DVD drive. A more flexible alternative is found with an external VCR connected to a DVD recorder or HDD/DVD recorder.
The 2006 DMR-ES35V is an outstanding videotape copying ?workhorse.? If dubbing/copying is important to you I would suggest reserving the DMR-ES35V for that use. Three of my five DMR-ES35V models and two of my similar 2005 DMR-ES30V models have accumulated more than 3,000 recording hours per machine?perhaps most of those recording hours accumulated during my extensive selective dubbing project, see this post:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=13955310#post13955310
With heavy use it is important to clean the DVD drive hub/spindle/lens and related parts especially in dusty or smoking environments or where DVDs are handled with a finger through the center hole. See this and the following posts for advice and photos:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=14479898#post14479898
I currently own sixteen functional Panasonics from the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 model years; one 2007 Philips 3575 HDD/DVD recorder; and a new 2008/2009 Magnavox H2160 HDD/DVD recorder arrived on Wednesday. All but two of my 2005 and 2006 Panasonics are currently set aside for standby service. Four 2007 DMR-EZ17 models are in current use, two of which are enslaved to a Comcast Motorola DTC700 digital cable box always tuned to TCM. One 2008 DMR-EZ28 model and the Philips 3575 HDD/DVD recorder are also dedicated to time-shifting from TCM. With the Panasonics I use a tandem recording strategy for TCM. I have settled upon the Panasonic LP speed (four hours per DVD) and often FR (at near or better than LP quality) for the last recording on a DVD. The 2007 and 2008 EZ series Panasonics require certain workarounds and occasional resets to keep them functional. (My favorite older Panasonics did not need such measures.) With the Philips I do not record at speeds below SPP or LP (2.5 to three hours per disc when dubbed to DVD). The new Magnavox H2160 HDD/DVD recorder is largely a Philips 3575/3576 clone. Once the Magnavox has been set up it will also be dedicated to time-shifting from TCM. There is much more flexibility, even with ?round the clock recording capability, with Philips and Magnavox hard drive models. These models are discussed in great detail on the AVS Forum. The Magnavox is currently bargain priced at $239.98 (plus $4.97 shipping to my home, and I opted for the three year extension of the warranty for $28.99); see the AVS Forum sticky thread for more information:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=940657
As to the Sony I would suggest looking for owner/user comments on the AVS Forum.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=106
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Shall we apply the "no moral absolutes" mindset to the marketplace?
Why doesn't TCM lower their transmission bandwidth because that's of no importance to anyone? There are no wrong answers!
Go out and purchase blank Memorex DVDs to record your favorite movies from TCM. I would suggest using the 8 hour per DVD speed since it doesn't matter whether one uses the one or two or four hour per DVD speed or the six or eight hour per DVD speed. Wow, eight hours of TCM on one DVD! But what a trade off! Picture quality? Who cares? Again, there are no wrong answers! Or, instead, one may purchase Taiyo Yuden Premium Line DVD blanks for a few cents more per disc than Memorex DVD blanks. Does anyone have such discernment? Again, there are no wrong answers!
Does it matter that the lack of moral absolutes leads some remaining "true to themself" to a life of tricks, schemes and devices? Is it OK to lie, cheat and steal? Again, there are no wrong answers!
Is it better to be of good character? That requires "moral absolutes" where one has to live up to high Standards. Oh, I forgot "good character" is defined by the liberal as "striving against and overcoming opposition." If there are no wrong answers, then there are no "standards." Do I hear you say that there are "Standards?" Shall the "standards" be set so low that the child molester, rapist, murderer, "gangsta," anarchist or terrorist dictates what is normal? After all, there are no wrong answers!
THERE ARE NO WRONG ANSWERS?
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Are you thinking of the intro that had a 1940s dance band where the musicians were located on several platforms being moved together into place as the camera pulled back?
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Film Fatale wrote:
?P.S. You've edited your post to remove one of the links you have posted, but I am going to ask TCMWebAdmin to look into the edits made to the post to determine whether the link you removed falls under the prohibition of the Code of Conduct.?
I did post a link to the complete article written by (gay authors) Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill. Then I noticed that the linked website had highlighted various words, phrases and sentences within the article. I found a different link that let the article stand as published. I posted that link and following that I did remove the first link that you, and I, found problematic.
It appears that you want sanctions on me because I did the right thing when I found that the article had highlighting not appearing in the original.
Since I am a conservative I offer this apology: ?I was wrong to post a link to an article where I had not examined the website?s highlighting of certain words, phrases and sentences. I should have more carefully examined the article before posting the link. I hope you will forgive me for my failure to examine the article before posting the link.?
In the event that you do not understand conservatives I will word my apology as a condescending liberal does: ?To those that found anything offensive in the link, I am sorry (for you).?
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One needs only watch our favorite "classic movies" to find contemporaneous portrayal of the Judeo/Christian influence in our society. When we look back to our early history what do we find?
The ?establishment of religion? in its historical context referred to the establishment of a specific Christian ?denomination? as the official ?state church.?
In certain European countries the Lutheran Church was the ?established? church; in England the Church of England was the ?established? church; in Scotland the Church of Scotland was the ?established? church, in Italy, France and Spain the Roman Catholic Church was the ?established? church, etc.
In Colonial America there were various Christian ?denominations,? usually the Anglican Church (Church of England) or the Congregational Church that were the ?established? church in the various Colonies.
The intent of the ?Framers? was to prohibit the ?establishment? of a specific Christian ?denomination? as an established ?state church.? Their view was that all Christian denominations should be regarded with equal standing. There is the ?neutral? view of law where government recognizes that religion is good and the practice of religion should be encouraged. There was a prohibition placed upon Congress so that there would be no restriction to ?the free exercise of religion.? So, in practice, citizens are free to practice religion?or no religion at all?and Congress may not interfere with that ?free exercise of religion.? Recent revisionists assert that the Christian Church may not freely exercise religion and the State must officially oppose the Christian religion. In the revisionist view the Christian Church has enjoyed a preferential place in society so now history must be rewritten in order to remove Judeo/Christian influence as the foundation of western civilization.
As to revisionist representations that this was never a ?Christian nation,? see such documents as Columbus? letter to Luis De Sant Angel (1493); Amerigo Vespucci?s account of his first voyage (1497); the First Charter of Virginia (1606); The Mayflower Compact (1620); The Fundamental orders of Connecticut (1639); The Liberties of the Massachusetts Collonie in New England (1641); Arbitrary Government Described and the government of Massachusetts Vindicated (1644). Follow those documents with The Declaration of Independence (1776); Articles of Confederation (1777); Constitution of the United States (1787); as well as Washington?s first inaugural address (1789) and Washington?s farewell address (1796) and many other more contemporaneous sources. One good source is Benjamin F. Morris? The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States (1864) reprinted by American Vision in 2007.
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See the several short videos in this series:
http://www.ehow.com/video_2388836_combine-steps-charleston-swing-dance.html
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Ludicrous? How about audacious?
The link is provided so that a discerning reader may determine the nature of the agenda embraced and approved in these pages. As a Christian I take exception to the attack, under whatever guise, that has been leveled against Christianity in these pages.
http://www.totse.com/en/law/justice_for_all/theoverhauling179017.html
What does the homosexual agenda have to do with classic movies? I've raised this question in an earlier post.
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The Bible doesn't have to say anything about homosexuality and homosexual marriage since the established standard is a male and female sexual and marital relationship. Based upon the Genesis account alone, there is no need for a single verse condemning homosexuality. (Gen. 1:26-28; 2:18-25). Affirming the heterosexual relationship, one man with one woman, condemns the homosexual relationship by definition. With the norm established, any deviation is by definition abnormal, unnatural, and sinful.
There are explicit references to homosexual practices in the following texts, Gen. 19; Lev. 18:22; 20:13; Deut. 23:17-18; Judges 19:16-30; Rom. 1:26-27; 1 Cor. 6:9; Tim. 1:9; Jude 7.
What Does Jesus Say? The logic of Jesus' anti-homosexual ethic is found in the way He describes marriage based on the creation account: Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?" And He answered and said, "Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'" 'So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together let no man separate" Matt. 19:3-6.
Jesus reiterates the biblical standard leaving no room for other relationships. Sex is related to one-fleshness, one-fleshness is reserved for marriage, and marriage is between a man and a woman. An argument could also be made that the prohibition against "****" (Greek: porneia) would also include homosexuality and all the other sex-related texts (Matt. 5:32; 19:9; Rom. 1:29; 1 Cor. 5:1; 7:2).
There are a number of "general equity" prohibitions found in the Old Testament. These provide for sanctions upon evildoers, but no longer to the extent as originally set forth in the Old Testament. An example is Lev. 20:9 that provides for putting to death anyone who curses his father. So even if the sanction of death is no longer in force, the command not to curse one's parents is still in force since Jesus links this behavior to the fifth commandment. Similarly, while the death penalty no longer applies to public displays of same-sex behavior, the prohibition still exists just as with the prohibition of cursing one's parents. In Mark 7:10 Jesus quotes and applies Lev. 20:9, "For Moses said, 'honor your father and your mother;' and, 'he who speaks evil of father or mother is to be put to death.'" Jesus uses Lev. 20:9 in the condemnation of the Pharisees by reinforcing the New Testament applicability by telling them, 'You nicely set aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition'" Mark 7:9.
Those who practice homosexual behavior and claim to believe the Bible should take comfort in Paul's words: "Do not be deceived; nether fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God" (1 Cor. 6:9-11).
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One of the most revealing articles ever written about the objectives of the gay rights movement comes from *Guide*, a homosexual magazine. The article, "The Overhauling of Straight America" (November 1987) goes into considerable detail about how gays will conquer straight America through a combination of propaganda and vilification. The authors, Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill, outline several strategies designed to weaken family-oriented America. Among them are:
1. Desensitization. "To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion." The authors say it's imperitive that gays talk about their gayness as much as possible on television and radio until people become indifferent to homosexuality. Straights will eventually be desensitized to the point that homosexuality will be viewed as just any other lifestyle. The use of the term "lifestyle" itself lulls the moral sensibilities to include them along side other normal lifestyles.
2. Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers. "In any campaign to win over the public, gays must be cast as victims in need of protection so that straights will be inclined by reflex to assume the role of protector."
3. Give the protectors a just cause. "Our campaign should not demand direct support for homosexual practices, but should instead make anti-discrimination as its theme."
4. Make the victimizers look bad. "To be blunt--they must be vilified . . . The public should be shown images of ranting homophobes whose secondary traits disgust middle America. These images might include the Ku Klux Klan demanding that gays be burned alive or castrated . . ."
The article goes on to describe a media campaign to promote homosexuality and to defeat the straight world. Marshall Kirk has since expanded this article into a book, "After the Ball," which is a tactical manual on how to seize power.
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When a short is scheduled it generally appears in the online schedule four to seven days in advance of its showing.
If looking at *Now Playing* schedules watch for filler spaces between movies, say a movie of 77 minute duration scheduled in a 90 minute time slot or a movie of 92 minute duration scheduled in a 105 minute time slot. A one reel short and other "in-betweens" will fit handily into these time slots. For two reel shorts watch for 20+ minute filler spaces.
Generally, scheduled shorts come from the same period (1930s/1940s) as the adjacent movie(s) or have some other relation to the subject matter or location of an adjacent movie. Examples: on Saturday *The Fighting Kentuckian* (1949) was followed by *Traveltalks: Glimpses Of Kentucky* (1941); on Sunday *Foreign Correspondent* (1940) was followed by *London Can Take It!* (1940); on Friday *Broadway Melody Of 1940* (1940) will be followed by *Martin Block's Musical Merry-Go-Round: Frankie Carle* (1948). Sometimes related material/shorts preceed the movie to which they are related.
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DVRs are marvelous products but they don't record a showing that was in the past.
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It would be better if "Classic Movies" is the agenda discussed on the TCM Message Boards.
If this keeps up we will soon be discussing a woman's "right" to choose to kill her helpless unborn baby.
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"Certainly no one condones threats of violence, although it seems that this minister was fanning the flames by referring to gay people as "wicked" (his book was titled "When the Wicked Seize a City")."
The book was published in 1993, a decade and a half after the incidents took place. I've just ordered the book through Amazon so I may find out for myself to what extent that pastor fanned the "gay" flames that incited firebombing the church and making death threats. Nowadays such behavoir is regarded as terrorism, more akin to that of Islamic extremists that hate infidels (all those that do not adhere to a certain kind of Islam).
Reading the Amazon book reviews and comments it is obvious that some gays are so mired in hedonism that they have a fanatical hatred of the redemptive religion that freely offers reconciliation and restoration of humanity made perfect through the blood of Jesus Christ. Whenever another message is substituted for that good news, distortions and deformations of Christianity are present.
"A rose by any other name will smell as sweet. But it does not follow that whatever we choose to call a rose will possess the rose's fragrance." --Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1917)
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"I don't beleive that religion should have any say in how government writes or enforces the laws."
The problem becomes the state's interference in the free exercise of religion. Where many churches view the joining together of a man and a woman as normative for marriage, the state, based upon a redefinition of marriage, may impose a requirement that a church must marry practicing homosexuals or be subject to prosecution for violating the law.
A small Presbyterian Church in San Francisco has openly taught that practicing homosexuality is sin, among other sins identified in the Bible. Back in the late 1970s that church hired an organist who concealed his homosexuality at the time of hiring. Later that homosexual's behavoir became a matter of concern to church members and church rulers since the church's doctrinal standards require that those who would lead in worship are expected to abstain from sin. The church could not approve or condone sinning. It was expected that sinners must repent of sin, i.e. turn away from practicing sin. The organist refused to repent of the sin of homosexuality and he was fired. He sued the church because it had discriminated against him because of his "sexual orientation." The church's doctrinal standards were clearly articulated and had to be subscribed to by church leaders and others involved in worship. The church was picketed, protesters disrupted worship services and intimidated members. The church was fire-bombed. Even worse, there were death threats to the pastor and his family; all this from the "tolerant" gay community in San Francisco. Here is an update:
http://www.opc.org/nh.html?article_id=123
The legal redifinition of what constitutes "marriage" does indeed open the door to serious "wall of separation" issues. That "wall" actually prevents the state from interfering in church matters and prohibits the state from restricting the "free exercise" of religion. Too often the "wall of separation" is cited in such a way as to restrict the free exercise of religion.
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Notice that Robert Benchley will be showing us How To Vote (1936) on Election Day right after Wake Of The Red Witch.
Leonard Maltin's Selected Short Subjects lists 49 Robert Benchley shorts from 1928 to 1945.
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I recorded Third Dimensional Murder. An earlier poster mentioned that some 3-D glasses are the wrong kind to watch this short. Might you give advice as to what would be the right kind of 3-D glasses?
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"The dummy was a human only in the final sequence, and he was much larger than the earlier dummy."
This morning I watched an episode of the Jack Benny TV show first aired on 3/22/59. Jack visits the Edgar Bergen home. Frances Bergen sings Them There Eyes. Then Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd appear. They are human and interact with Frances and Jack. Frances treats the dummies as her children. Edgar Bergen arrives home at the end of the sequence. Edgar has Jack sit on his lap as if Jack's the dummy. Billy Curtis portrays both McCarthy and Snerd. This episode was shown by CBN on 7/9/87.
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"sometimes I switch to Fox News and watch . . . Greta Van Susterin...
Sometimes TCM shows it's best films in the wee small hours..."
Last night the most exciting TV was seeing Newt Gingrich sneeze while Greta droned on an on. I was surprized to see Newt back on Greta's show since, just a few days ago, he told Greta that she was "incredibly naive." I'm not really a Greta fan (she's too liberal) and Newt, though a good conservative, comes across as an arrogant condescending jerk, but someone has to expose the tricks, schemes, and devices of the left. I did enjoy Greta's bus-ride interview with Sarah Palin and family. Sarah will be back to run, and win, another day.
Later I managed to endure Blood Feast from beginning to end. Blood Feast is the worst movie I've ever seen. By comparison Ed Wood movies are silly but charming. Except for the pretty girls Blood Feast had nothing going for it. The cops were beyond dumb. And the cops' foot chase, where they couldn't catch the limping bad guy, was absurd. I yelled at the TV, "if you idiots can't catch up with the bad guy just shoot him!" (After all this was 1963 when cops could do that.) And then when the crippled guy has to stop to catch his breath he throws his knife at the cops! Then we see that the cops have fallen so far behind in the foot chase that the knife toss is meaningless. Then at the end the homicide detective explains how, after being clueless throughout the movie, he at long last reasoned his way to identify the bad guy. (This is a far cry from CSI NY and LV, even the dreadful Miami version with the sulky guy.) Blood Feast was so dumb that it was beyond belief. I watched two or three minutes of Two Thousand Maniacs! before I realized that this would be more of the same. Enough, I said, and off went the TV.
Earlier in the evening I was toying with the idea of implementing the Obama "spread the wealth around" redistribution scheme for trick or treat visitors. In my neighborhood the kids wouldn't understand how robbing from the rich (the kids with lots of candy) and giving the poor (the kids with very little candy) is symbolic of the socialistic views approved and embraced by their parents. If I had given the kids this lesson their "tolerant" and "diverse" relatives would be back with a "drive-by" that is so very common in my part of town. So, what did I do? The shades were pulled and I watched Greta.
Most of the time TCM shows my favorite early talkies through the film noir era in "the wee small hours . ." That's why I time-shift.
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I've just auditioned Pennies From Heaven finding that the Hobson Fur Company scene begins at about 52:57 and is about 15 seconds in duration.
The "open all night" diner scene is a composite from different sources. Where the counterman is pouring coffee may well be from The Wild One. I don't have that movie. The couple sitting at the counter, as viewed through the window, are Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. That Pennies From Heaven scene begins at about 1:18:19 and is about 11 seconds in duration. The "open all night" neon window sign is not in the original scene.
The auditioned copy of Pennies From Heaven is from a TCM showing in the early a.m. hours of 1/6/08. Incidentally, the Film Noir intro we've been discussing is seen just before that showing of Pennies From Heaven.
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My audition procedure is to skip or forward through a movie to find a particular scene.
When I audition a DVD the procedure is the same but the purpose is to determine that a recorded movie is complete, and identify interstitials and related information for entry in my index of home-recorded time-shifted DVDs. If I find emergency notification tests or signal interruptions or other problems, e.g. if the movie print is of poor quality, I've managed to cut off the ending (an "eclip") sometimes noting an estimate of how much was cut (say "3m eclip" or ""5m begclip"), cut the beginning or ending credits ("bcrclip" or "ecrclip") or recorded only a partial title ("18m cncl only" or "1st 53m only"), that information will be included in the title listing so that movie may be recorded again from a future showing.
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I've seen the movie with the 1949/50 Ford pulling up to the curb and its headlights go out, but I can't remember the title. It seems to me that the man in the car enters the building, either a cheap hotel or apartment, goes upstairs and knocks on a door. I'm reasonably sure that I have this movie recorded to DVD. If someone comes up with a likely title I may audition it for confirmation.
The Hobson Fur Company and open all night diner scenes are from Pennies From Heaven with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters.
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The diner scene is from Pennies From Heaven (with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters) where happy music is mixed with a sad story.
"Just goes to show, for every person, there's a different opinion."
We should still "look for the silver lining" and the "sunny side of life" even if TCM has abandoned it.
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I watch TCM often but not usually "live." I currently have three Panasonic DVD recorders and one Philips HDD/DVD recorder dedicated to time-shifting from TCM. This allows for tandem time-shifting, sometimes extending around the clock when TCM programs early talkies through the film noir era.
In one way or another I've been time-shifting since December 1986 when I purchased my first VCR. I purchased my first DVD recorder in 2005. In 2007 I completed a ten month long project dubbing to DVD selected portions of my near twenty years of home-recorded time-shifted videotaped recordings. That project usually had four of my Panasonic combo recorders each running up to sixteen hours per day. Sometimes there were as many as seven of my Panasonic recorders each running up to eighteen hours per day. During the dubbing project I continued to time-shift from TCM. In the last year and a half I have viewed, for the first time, material originally shown on The Nostalgia Channel in the 1980s, AMC in the 1990s, and TCM in early 1997 and again since around 2004. I have a DVD index in the MS Works Database format to keep track of my home-recorded time-shifted or dubbed titles.
With time-shifting I watch whatever I please whenever I please.
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It's taken repeated viewings before I observed the connection of the rays of light (finally) producing the Robert Osborne screen. Only now do I see it--that this is "the ethereal light that comes from the projection booth."
But I'm still confused by the people fixated upon the rays of light rather than what the light produces. That fixation is what occasioned my choice of the title of this thread.
Gremlin seeks DVDR advice
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TrissyCat,
In my October 4 2008 post I cautioned "When recording from digital sources 'Copy Protection' of copyrighted material will be an ever-present concern. Choose the brands/models that are the least sensitive to copy protection."
Recent discussions on the AVS Forum indicate that "Copy Protection" is now being embeded in some commercials due to copyrighted musical selections found in those commercials. When the "CP flag" is detected by a tuner the device may prevent the recording of the commercial as well as the program where the commercial has been inserted.
There are other AVS Forum discussions of original programming that contain the "CP flag" or certain networks that are implementing "CP" in a more widespread manner.
In the last dozen years the laws have changed in ways that allow restrictions to, or prevention of the recording of copyrighted material. With the implementation of digital transmission and reception technology the recording of copyrighted content will become more restrictive as time goes by.
Yes, there is computer software, and "video stabilizers" that bypass some copyright restrictions when used with recording or copying devices. These are also discussed on the AVS Forum.
Most DVD recorder User Manuals have CP disclaimers prominently displayed. Some DVD recorders, especially Sony and JVC products, are so sensitive to a real or perceived "CP flag" that many users are returning the DVD recorders as "defective" since they are unable to record much of anything. This is contributing to the demise of DVD recorders.
Cable and satellite providers have DVRs that will record HD or SD programming but these devices may not allow copying of these recordings to removable media (DVDs). DVRs are also contributing to the demise of DVD recorders.
Some manufacturers are abandoning the DVD recorder market. Their reasoning: Why build a DVD recorder that doesn't record? Why build a DVD recorder that may work but the DVD recorder manufacturer may become a party to a copyright infringement lawsuit if their product works too well?