I have recorded a few programmes to hard disc for my son to play on his laptop. I transferred these onto a re - recordable DVD and the player advised me it had to be ' finalised' before it could be played on other equipment. Half way through the finalising process, a message informed me that ' finalisation had failed'.
I put the DVD into our PC to check and I got error messages which suggested that the DVD did not have the required ' rights'.
Is it really the case that I am not allowed to record freely available TV programmes to play on another machine? I am talking about match of the day and Heroes here. Does this restriction cover all TV or just high profile stuff like Heroes?
This would not have been a problem with a VHS video so I am rather surprised it is so restrictive.
I put the DVD into our PC to check and I got error messages which suggested that the DVD did not have the required ' rights'.
Is it really the case that I am not allowed to record freely available TV programmes to play on another machine? I am talking about match of the day and Heroes here. Does this restriction cover all TV or just high profile stuff like Heroes?
This would not have been a problem with a VHS video so I am rather surprised it is so restrictive.