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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1129284" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hello and welcome Pctravel <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Yep. HBO (and all other premium channels - Showtime et. al.) are almost certainly protected with &quot;copy-once&quot; copy protection.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control_Information" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control_Information</a>MediaPortal can't access such channels because we haven't implemented copy protection support.Why?1. We don't have developers available to do it.2. We don't really want to implement support for things that will restrict your ability to do what you want with MediaPortal.3. Certification for copy protection compliance is very expensive. Way more than we - an open source organisation, surviving on donations - can afford.Even if we had developers available, wanted to implement copy protection support, and somehow found the money to apply for certification... it is very unlikely that MediaPortal could be certified, simply because it is open source software. Open source means that MP's source code is available to everyone to download, build modify... do whatever they want with it. That being the case, people could remove or disable any restrictions we put in place. The certifiers would know that, and therefore would not certify MP unless we closed access to our source code... which is not going to happen. That's completely against the founding principles of Team MediaPortal.We're not the only software/people in this position. MythTV, N-PVR, Kodi/XBMC, ARGUS, PLEX... all in a similar position. As far as I know WMC is still the only PC software which enables you to watch and record &quot;copy-once&quot; channels. Unfortunately I can't see that changing any time soon, if ever.Regards,mm</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1129284, member: 82144"] Hello and welcome Pctravel :) Yep. HBO (and all other premium channels - Showtime et. al.) are almost certainly protected with "copy-once" copy protection. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control_Information[/url] MediaPortal can't access such channels because we haven't implemented copy protection support. Why? 1. We don't have developers available to do it. 2. We don't really want to implement support for things that will restrict your ability to do what you want with MediaPortal. 3. Certification for copy protection compliance is very expensive. Way more than we - an open source organisation, surviving on donations - can afford. Even if we had developers available, wanted to implement copy protection support, and somehow found the money to apply for certification... it is very unlikely that MediaPortal could be certified, simply because it is open source software. Open source means that MP's source code is available to everyone to download, build modify... do whatever they want with it. That being the case, people could remove or disable any restrictions we put in place. The certifiers would know that, and therefore would not certify MP unless we closed access to our source code... which is not going to happen. That's completely against the founding principles of Team MediaPortal. We're not the only software/people in this position. MythTV, N-PVR, Kodi/XBMC, ARGUS, PLEX... all in a similar position. As far as I know WMC is still the only PC software which enables you to watch and record "copy-once" channels. Unfortunately I can't see that changing any time soon, if ever. Regards, mm [/QUOTE]

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