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I understand. But given that you're feeding the HVR-1250 nothing but channel 3 via coax, you have to live within those constraints.
One constraint, of course, is that you're not watching true HD.
But the other is that you must always view and record using channel 3. NO other channel is delivered on that coax except channel 3, which corresponds to whatever actual channel the STB is tuned to at that moment.
There is NOTHING on the coax at any other channel but 3. Period.
Not at all. You recorded nothing but some frequency on the coax.the scheduled recording was set to record from channel 43(through wmc) and not channel 3. so this brings up the question. is there anyway to view the .wtv files i have recorded?
There is nothing on your coax that has any meaning other than channel 3. Period.
I don't understand how you schedule recordings... because your WMC recording must be set to channel 3, and simultaneously you have to be sure the STB is on the true channel you want to be recording (in this case AMCHD on 43). How do you make that happen... manually? Some programmed Harmony remote or something that auto-tunes the STB via timer/programming?
And if you've recorded things in the past correctly, presumably those recordings were made using WMC and setting to channel 3. How/why did you mess up this time and set WMC to record channel 43? Temporary brain out-to-lunch?
Anyway, your WTV recordings of what was supposedly channel 43 are 100% worthless. The "copy protected" message is clearly not a true statement, but probably is just coming out because WMC can't figure out what it's looking at in that channel 43 WTV recording and assumes that it's encrypted or at least cannot be decrypted by what is supposed to be the active cablecard, hence it must be "from another computer recording".
Don't think about it anymore. The problem is now clear, that you mistakenly set the recording for channel 43 when in fact ALL your WMC recordings using this setup should ALWAYS BE ON CHANNEL 3, with the STB needing to be tuned properly at the same time to whatever true channel you wish to record via WMC/3.