PPV bomb drops on Feb 1st

[FlyingJ]

It could be true, or it could be fabulous trollery. It's worth noting, this was also posted in the Dish Network forums. Let's hold off the verbal beating of the OP until Friday. If it's not true, I just may be grateful enough to not berate him. I've heard just enough about content companies trying to enforce this kind of crap for several years to take what he said as a possibility. Dish has already made very clear (Look at some of the other "DRM" threads recently) that they are going to be (under protest) infecting some of their channels with so-called "DRM" to downconvert HD on certain PPV and premium channels to 480p if you aren't connected with an HDCP compatible HDMI connection. Component users, you are SOL. It's also been mentioned that recording restrictions are a possibility, so what the OP said could have some truth to it.

I just wanted to re post this one because the phrase "fabulous trollery" was in it. Just to be clear, Scott posted that this event would not be taking place as far as he knew. Did he then post something, the email froma a D* contact to throw it back up as a possibility?

 

[dfergie]

It's a very strong probablility soon, I have heard / seen this myself from Direct...

 

[Tyralak]

Well, it's Friday and my PPVs are still here. Looks like a false alarm to me.

 

[chiente]

Update on PPVs

Implementation delayed... but still on for sometime in the near future.

 

[PWenger]

Flashing back to January 1st, 2000, when they told us the Y2K bug would hit in a year because the Millenium REALLY started in 2001.

 

[bjdotson]

Flashing back to January 1st, 2000, when they told us the Y2K bug would hit in a year because the Millenium REALLY started in 2001.

That's funny. The millenium really did start in 2001 but that has nothing to do with Y2K bug.

 

[ercjncpr]

Implementation delayed... but still on for sometime in the near future.

Here is a good site for ya!
December 21 2012, The official Website for 122112 Information

 

[1sweetchevy]

I did notice one of the PPVs I had saved on my HR20 only gives a "searching for authorized content" message.

 

[dfergie]

From a DirecTv Source:

This is something scheduled for this year as a result of digital copyright requirements from the movie studios, but there is infrastructure and coding that needs to be done to make it work.

 

[reallyniceguy]

Hmm its feb 14.. my recordings are still there

 

[ercjncpr]

I use a DVD recorder-- that way, the recording is mine!

 

[Jimbo]

I use a DVD recorder-- that way, the recording is mine!

Unfortunatly, you probably lost your HD format unless you have a specific set up to do so.

Jimbo