I really, really wish I could edit the original post.
After trying everything, I went back to original Seagate 500 GB 3.5" drive - and everything works. Okay, let's clone it to the 500 GB 2.5" Samsung SSD again. I did. Same thing.
1. Live TV works on some channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Weather Channel, C-SPAN, PBS) and on the others I get "Copying Prohibited" - which is crazy because it's Live TV.
2. Recorded TV plays.
And, intermittently, the "Copying Prohibited" changes to "PlayReady Update Failed" and then back to "Copying Prohibited".
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the video card. But it works with the original drive... Tried changing HDMI cables - but they work with the original drive (not sure how HDMI cables would affect a hard drive anyway).
Somehow, in some way, Spectrum or WMC knows that it's not the original hard drive and is stopping encrypted channels from playing? The very Ceton and WMC-savvy cable card tech didn't think so, but that's my current stab in the dark.
Unfortunately I can't setup my TV signal again as it always stops at updating PlayReady, which fails. And if I try to to force an update*, WMC crashes.
Minor update. I was able to reset DRM using viewtopic.php?t=3760 but it's still saying "Copying prohibited".
*https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 42fafe4757
Changing out drives and WMC
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FINAL (I hope) UPDATE
After finally resetting DRM using this tip (viewtopic.php?t=3760), I was able to "re-set-up" my TV signal in WMC successfully (it never even mentioned updating PlayReady or flew by it so fast I didn't see it).
Then I set up EPG123 again. And restarted WMC. And it works.
Now I'm just waiting for USPS to deliver my i7-4790 CPU (I upgraded from a Celeron G1840 to an i5-4430 successfully... and then I got a wild hair) which got here... and then went to Greensboro to come back here...
After finally resetting DRM using this tip (viewtopic.php?t=3760), I was able to "re-set-up" my TV signal in WMC successfully (it never even mentioned updating PlayReady or flew by it so fast I didn't see it).
Then I set up EPG123 again. And restarted WMC. And it works.
Now I'm just waiting for USPS to deliver my i7-4790 CPU (I upgraded from a Celeron G1840 to an i5-4430 successfully... and then I got a wild hair) which got here... and then went to Greensboro to come back here...
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Just to let you know, this answer from adam1991 is not correct. He tried to give me the same reply when I had a similar issue recently.
It's the Windows DRM getting borked. It's got nothing to do with your provider changing anything.
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Yes, as my final update (above) says, once I reset DRM as per this - viewtopic.php?t=3760 - I was good to go. I had to clear my tuners and rediscover them and set up my TV Signal again in WMC (and EPG123, but Spectrum had added more channels of nothing to watch anyway).oakley516 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2020 7:28 amJust to let you know, this answer from adam1991 is not correct. He tried to give me the same reply when I had a similar issue recently.
It's the Windows DRM getting borked. It's got nothing to do with your provider changing anything.
I wish I could edit my original post because that would (might) help others in the future without them having to read the whole thread.
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My Win 7 WMC system crashed with the blue screen of death and would no longer reboot. An old backup I had also had the same problem. I did a clean install of windows 7 and everything worked except live TV. My recordings on different drive all worked. Live TV setup always failed with the error, Error while loading Playready. I downloaded this Simplix UpdatePack 7 21.2.10 and it installed 44 updates and then everything worked.
https://www.225 Cemetery Lanemajorgeeks.com/files/details/simplix_updatepack.html#:~:text=Simplix%20UpdatePack%20enables%20you%20to%20update%20your%20live,%28Install.wim%29.%20It%20can%20be%20installed%20in%20any%20language
https://www.225 Cemetery Lanemajorgeeks.com/files/details/simplix_updatepack.html#:~:text=Simplix%20UpdatePack%20enables%20you%20to%20update%20your%20live,%28Install.wim%29.%20It%20can%20be%20installed%20in%20any%20language