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Post by hurnik on Oct 7, 2009 13:07:21 GMT -5
Just got a call from Roy @ TW Albany
Starting next week (hopefully, this is tentative) they will begin setting pretty much all channels to copy freely (obviously PPV, VOD, etc. will not be set to copy freely and channels with specific contracts prohibiting this as well).
So hopefully starting next week we'll start seeing 0x00 or whatever it is.
He said it may take them a few weeks to do all 500+ channels (apparently each channel has to be done one at a time, and for each "ad zone" and there's 5 zones).
So thanks to Roy for doing this!!!!
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Post by Skaggs on Oct 7, 2009 13:41:00 GMT -5
No F'n Way!!!
A loud "wooohooo!" can be heard from all over the Capital District. Well, maybe only from the 15 or so of us that use cable cards in our TiVo's.
Hurnik, you are the cci byte savior and soon-to-be god in the TiVoCommunity!
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Post by Skaggs on Oct 7, 2009 13:42:05 GMT -5
Did TWC give a reason for their change of policy? What is the reason for their change? For those of you unfamiliar with the CCI Byte, it is a code TWC inserts into the TV show transmission signal that enables or disables copying. TiVo interprets this "code" and depending on the value, will enable or prohibit Multi-room viewing (sending a program from one tivo in your house to another) and Tivo-To-Go (sending the program from your TiVo to your computer). A better, more technical, description can be found here. |
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Post by peekb on Oct 7, 2009 14:20:08 GMT -5
Holy crap. I don't believe it!  |
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Post by hurnik on Oct 7, 2009 16:25:21 GMT -5
Roy didn't really mention the reason other than Corporate gave him the approval to change the items.
I'm not sure if the CiC "assistance" or possibly other issues were involved. To be honest, I was too afraid to ask and was just grateful that something was going to be done.
I'm still pinching myself.
Now I have an excuse to buy another TivoHD
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Post by Skaggs on Oct 7, 2009 18:06:57 GMT -5
I wonder I my tweet to @jefftwc last week asking him to provide a copy of TWC's corporate policy on setting the CCI byte started things rolling? It seems it was a convenient excuse for the local TWC offices to say it was a "corporate policy" to set the CCI byte as 0x02. Corporate must have recently sent a notice to the local TWC offices informing them it was their decision.
Thanks to Hurnik contacting Albany TWC and getting a hold of "Roy" to explain the cable-in-the-classrooms defense, we got some movement on the issue. I know m_jonis was a strong advocate, too. You can read his posts on the CCI byte at the TiVoCommunity.com forums.
While we are patting ourselves on the back, we should take time to point out that the CCI byte change hasn't actually happened yet. We all know about empty promises from TWC, but this news and the addition of 23 new HD channels in the last 8 days has been encouraging, to say the least.
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Post by Chris Miller on Oct 7, 2009 20:29:54 GMT -5
I had a couple of calls on my answering machine from Roy about the CCI Flag. I had not contacted TWC Albany directly. I had emailed TW Corporate and sent a tweet to @jefftwc.
This is good news indeed. Now if we could just get BBCA HD....
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Post by southpaw on Oct 7, 2009 22:05:36 GMT -5
This is a good sign for the Hudson Valley Timewarner region. They started the SDV conversion today. Call from James Manchesters office said that CCI Flag settings are at discretion of local head end engineer now.
I have no clue who our head end engineer.
Is Roy the Albany Head End Engineer?
Have you guys gotten a copy of the Albany Head End disclosure?
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Post by Skaggs on Oct 9, 2009 7:30:02 GMT -5
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Post by hurnik on Oct 9, 2009 14:16:13 GMT -5
I don't remember Roy's title (I didn't want to post his last name and whatnot).
That doesn't sound good about the National Corporate doing that (I'll have to check the Tivo community as well).
But we'll see.
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Post by southpaw on Oct 10, 2009 16:06:17 GMT -5
As of this morning 10/10/2009 Channel 713 – PBS HD and 715 – Discovery HD are now copy freely in the TWC Hudson Valley Region. I will check other channels but most are still Copy once. I called and TWC HVR still won’t discuss the CCI Flag.
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Post by hurnik on Oct 12, 2009 20:37:40 GMT -5
I checked channel 4, and 20 on my TivoHD and they are 0x00 now as well. I didn't check the others (I had removed those channels since the "digital" version was available). I think the next higher up one I checked was maybe 215? That was still 0x02.
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