For AT LEAST the last three years I have been archiving my Bright House Network DVR recordings, live programming, premium channel programming and many movies on HBO, Showtime, and Cinemax ON Demand channels. I have never shared these recordings with anybody, just kept them in a binder for my own viewing later on. I've never had a problem recording cable.
According to HBO's website (which I found today researching the problem with Dish I am about to write about), it is OK to make a single copy of HBO and Cinemax programming and they say they don't allow you a copy of HBO or Cinemax On Demand. This is all news to me and up until about two or three months ago I was recording a lot. I just haven't recorded anything in the last few months. They say there is no need to "time shift" the On Demand material since the nature of On Demand is to watch it on your schedule, therefore they have disabled it (worked for me last time I checked). Yes HBO, there is a reason, and that reason is that you have an end date for programs on demand. If I don't have time to watch a show before August 25th and it ends August 25th on demand, I am SOL unless I record it. That is not permitted. But anyway... I am getting off my own topic.
The point I of this thread is that I have been recording everything except PPV on my BHN DVR for literally years. I now subscribe to Dish too (for about 5 months). I have never, until today, attempted to record anything from the 622 DVR unto my DVD recorder. But today I realized that the Monsters HD recordings of four Hellraiser movies and six Children of the Corn movies were about exhausting my storage space. I figured I would just start the recording and get a few of them onto DVD (yes I know they'd be standard def and not HD, but I don't care since my box was about full). I thought I would go back every two hours and change blank DVD-Rs and start recording the next film while I worked from home, freeing up space on my 622. I am way too busy to sit through any of these movies right now, and thought I'd set them aside for a rainy day.
NO SUCH LUCK! Something I have done for at least three years with BHN cannot be done on Dish?????
About three minutes into my recording of the first Hellraiser, the picture faded out like the days of attempting to copy VHS-> VHS. What I noticed first was my Philips DVDR 3400 recorder had paused the recording and splashed a message about "no video signal" and then I noticed what was going on.
This is BS. This is complete garbage. I am not trying to sell these movies. I am not trying to steal. I am trying to make my own personal copy to watch when I have time. I am paying a lot of money for Dish Network in addition to cable. If I really enjoy a movie, I buy it on DVD or high def DVD. I have over 500 movies that I have BOUGHT. I am merely trying to take full advantage of what I am paying for. I am trying to free up space to record more until I have time to watch my movies. Most of these recorded movies are watched once and then they are garbage anyway! If I like the movie enough I will buy it.
Keep it up Dish. I am fed up to the point where I am going to cancel you. I'll cancel cable too if they start this BS. Push consumers away with copy protection, go ahead. Push me.
According to HBO's website (which I found today researching the problem with Dish I am about to write about), it is OK to make a single copy of HBO and Cinemax programming and they say they don't allow you a copy of HBO or Cinemax On Demand. This is all news to me and up until about two or three months ago I was recording a lot. I just haven't recorded anything in the last few months. They say there is no need to "time shift" the On Demand material since the nature of On Demand is to watch it on your schedule, therefore they have disabled it (worked for me last time I checked). Yes HBO, there is a reason, and that reason is that you have an end date for programs on demand. If I don't have time to watch a show before August 25th and it ends August 25th on demand, I am SOL unless I record it. That is not permitted. But anyway... I am getting off my own topic.
The point I of this thread is that I have been recording everything except PPV on my BHN DVR for literally years. I now subscribe to Dish too (for about 5 months). I have never, until today, attempted to record anything from the 622 DVR unto my DVD recorder. But today I realized that the Monsters HD recordings of four Hellraiser movies and six Children of the Corn movies were about exhausting my storage space. I figured I would just start the recording and get a few of them onto DVD (yes I know they'd be standard def and not HD, but I don't care since my box was about full). I thought I would go back every two hours and change blank DVD-Rs and start recording the next film while I worked from home, freeing up space on my 622. I am way too busy to sit through any of these movies right now, and thought I'd set them aside for a rainy day.
NO SUCH LUCK! Something I have done for at least three years with BHN cannot be done on Dish?????
About three minutes into my recording of the first Hellraiser, the picture faded out like the days of attempting to copy VHS-> VHS. What I noticed first was my Philips DVDR 3400 recorder had paused the recording and splashed a message about "no video signal" and then I noticed what was going on.
This is BS. This is complete garbage. I am not trying to sell these movies. I am not trying to steal. I am trying to make my own personal copy to watch when I have time. I am paying a lot of money for Dish Network in addition to cable. If I really enjoy a movie, I buy it on DVD or high def DVD. I have over 500 movies that I have BOUGHT. I am merely trying to take full advantage of what I am paying for. I am trying to free up space to record more until I have time to watch my movies. Most of these recorded movies are watched once and then they are garbage anyway! If I like the movie enough I will buy it.
Keep it up Dish. I am fed up to the point where I am going to cancel you. I'll cancel cable too if they start this BS. Push consumers away with copy protection, go ahead. Push me.