Being the geek that I am, I’ve been spending a little bit of time as of late looking for additional information about the Multi-Room Viewing (MRV) & TiVoToGo (TTG) copy protection issue that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago . Low and behold, TiVo’s very own knowledge base has a rather detailed article which explains how TiVo determines whether or not a recording should have copy protection applied to it.

As I alluded to in a previous post , the whole copy protection thing really comes down to a simple flag known as the: Copy Control Information (CCI) byte. From what I understand, all CableLabs certified devices are required to read this flag and implement copy protection accordingly (note that this flag only affects CableCard enabled devices, ie: Series 3 & TiVo HD). Here’s a quick summary of what the flag values mean as well as how to determine your DVR’s current flag value (taken from TiVo’s support article ).

CableCARDs display copy protection for the current channel(s) as CCI bytes.…