TiVoStephen posted this comment here on the blog in response to the last update about the lockdown of the HBO John Adams miniseries, and I wanted to draw it to your attention (and thanks so much, Stephen, for responding here!):
“I’m Stephen Mack, Director of Operations at TiVo. It has recently come to our attention that [...]
It looks like the mystery of TiVo locking down HBO’s John Adams miniseries has been solved–and it’s not a happy resolution. Dean writes:
I looked at the TiVo website that was displayed on my TV last night, and found this. I was watching the broadcast on a TiVo HD on a HBO HD channel, with [...]
UPDATE: Original post is now below; Dean emailed back to say, “HBO did in fact broadcast the series John Adams with the same TiVo copy protection that I emailed you about earlier.” This is the first instance I know of in which TiVo is allowing copy protection restrictions to be applied on non-VOD or pay-per-view [...]