Maybe I should stop reading manuals but the bit I just read was kind of interesting as I've never heard of this before.
It's possible to record a HDV tape with content protection, no clue provided as to HOW to do that however tapes recorded with that flag cannot be ingested via 1394, they will playout the component ports of the deck but only as downconverted SD??
But it gets worse, much worse. The manual warns about switching recording formats mid stream, this may cause enough glicthes in the system for the deck to think it's seen content protection as set and then refusing to let you capture the tape.
As if HDV isn't a difficult enough format for many people to come to grips with, why was this ticking bomb included in the specs. What earthly purpose does it serve, surely no one saw HDV tape as a distro medium. Sticking DRM on shiny disks is one thing, this seems to have elevated that madness to a new height.
Bob.
It's possible to record a HDV tape with content protection, no clue provided as to HOW to do that however tapes recorded with that flag cannot be ingested via 1394, they will playout the component ports of the deck but only as downconverted SD??
But it gets worse, much worse. The manual warns about switching recording formats mid stream, this may cause enough glicthes in the system for the deck to think it's seen content protection as set and then refusing to let you capture the tape.
As if HDV isn't a difficult enough format for many people to come to grips with, why was this ticking bomb included in the specs. What earthly purpose does it serve, surely no one saw HDV tape as a distro medium. Sticking DRM on shiny disks is one thing, this seems to have elevated that madness to a new height.
Bob.