I bought a dvdr to offload some of my dvr movies to make more room. I hooked up my equipment tonight. I can record live TV fine but any time I try to record something from the DVR it says '+VR recording not permitted' I looked up the error and it says i'm trying to record a copy protected disk. My computer isn't good enough to buy a TV capture card for. I feel like my shows have been hijacked. What's the point of having a DVR and DVDR if I can't off load anything? I figured before I return the DVDR someone might be able to help me out. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? Does comcast copy protect it's DVR on purpose to keep you hooked on their system?
I have a Scientific Atlanta DVR with Comcast Houston hooked up to a Magnavox DVDR that does the +VR recording thing for making DVD's. The DVD recorder is hooked up to the DVR's VCR output and I've had zero copy prohibited problems as you describe. Maybe Comcast Houston doesn't prohibit recording to DVD off of the DVR or perhaps the channels I record (ABC, NBC, TCM, Fox Movie Channel, & the Encore channels) don't block recording those shows & movies to a DVD.
