TiVo and the CCI Byte (My Frustration Continues)

If you follow my Twitter feed you probably already know that I recently started to revisit the CCI byte issue that has frustrated me for quite a while now.  Thanks to Time Warner’s draconian settings, Multi-Room viewing and TiVoToGo has become essentially useless within my household. Like Dave Zatz, I am completely irritated with the [...]

More about TiVoToGo & Multi-Room Viewing Copy Protection (CCI byte Explained)

Being the geek that I am, I’ve been spending a little bit of time as of late looking for additional information about the Multi-Room Viewing (MRV) & TiVoToGo (TTG) copy protection issue that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago. Low and behold, TiVo’s very own knowledge base has a rather detailed article which [...]

TiVoToGo & MRV Copy Protection

Ideally I’d like to be able to use TiVo’s multi-room viewing feature to transfer my son’s programs to my Series 3 DVR whenever he wants to watch one of his shows.  I say ideally because, I’ve noticed that a lot of the content that I record on the TiVo HD has been copy protected which [...]

TiVo Blog Help Requests

Over the past couple of days I’ve received the following help requests via this site’s “contact me” form. Rather than answer each of these questions with a personal email, I’ve decided to post my response here so that hopefully it will benefit somebody else. If you’d like to add anything to my response [...]

TiVoToGo Copy Protection

Is it just me or does it seem like a lot of shows on your TiVo have the CCI flag set which prevents you from transferring these shows using TiVoToGo? Lately, it seems like more and more shows have this turned on. Am I the only one experiencing this problem and is there [...]

DRM Glitch Prevents Series 3 TiVo From Playing HBO

What else can I say? DRM really sucks!