Cisco Headend Digital Broadband Delivery System
Recording Control: Prevent Subscribers from Recording a Service
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Recording Control: Prevent Subscribers from
Recording a Service
Follow these instructions to customize the DVR service by disabling DVR
functionality for specific services so that subscribers cannot record them. Otherwise,
subscribers can record any service, even those on VOD and Music Channels.
When subscribers are prevented from recording a service, the following message
When subscribers are prevented from recording a service, the following message
displays whenever a subscriber attempts to record the service:
ATTENTION: Recording feature not available on this channel
Important! You should disable the DVR functionality for any services that you do
not want subscribers to record.
Preventing Subscribers from Recording a Service
1 From the SAM Service List window, highlight the service that you do not want
subscribers to record.
2 Click File and then select Open. The Set Up SAM Service window opens with
information about the service you selected.
3 Modify the Application URL field by adding ;NOPVR to the end of the existing
URL, as shown in the following example. In this example, the URL
bfs://resapp/watchtv becomes bfs://resapp/watchtv;NOPVR.
4 Click Save to save the service information in the DNCS database and close the
Set Up SAM Service window. The SAM Service List window is now visible.