[geeks] Professional. Do Not Attempt.

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Thu Sep 29 13:07:23 CDT 2005


Wed, 28 Sep 2005 @ 11:37 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:

> It has to do with broadcast-flag support in recent versions of TivoOS --
> the broadcast flag being part of the mechanism of Hollywood's end-run
> around the SCOTUS Betamax decision that said "If you have the right to
> watch it, you have the right to record it for your own use."  The
> broadcast flag basically allows the broadcaster to tell your Tivo to
> automatically delete the recording of a flagged show after some
> specified interval or, I believe, not to record certain shows at all.

Can you hack the new OS to ignore such requests?  Any utilities you can
run on TiVo do deal with crap like that?


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