Faust - 7 minutes ago »
The licence to use the Freeview/Freesat epg imposes a requirement on the box makers to encrypt (and copy protect) when the broadcaster flags it in the broadcast stream (the actual broadcast is not encrypted). This has to be using a single key unique to the box.
Generic free to air kit without the convenience of the epg do not have to encrypt. A DVB-T2 card in a PC would record without encryption as would a generic DVB-S2 satellite pvr.
That's only partly true Graham, or may well be true now. However, I still have a Panasonic DVD/HDD recorder with Freeview. I can not only record to the HDD but can then archive it to DVD (granted it's only in SD). However, that disc can then be played on any commercial DVD player.
In effect what we have now is not as good as we had in the past although what we had in the past was SD not HD. I think the latest generation of DVD/HDD recorders have been hobbled.
You can still do that using a HDR2000T and presumably a FVP-4000T for SD content. Broadcasters do not normally impose encryption on SD content.
Humax boxes differ how they handle this, the HDR Freeview+ range encrypt everything but decrypt SD on copying to SD or streaming via DLNA. As the FVP-4000T is capable of streaming to mobile devices it presumably inherits the same capability.
The Foxsat-hdr encrypts HD when the broadcaster flags this (For some months after BBC1 HD launched the flag wasn't set so the recordings were not encrypted). SD is not encrypted at all, as a result no decryption is required.
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