Re: Macrovision Killer/eliminator
From: Mike Harrison (mike_at_whitewing.co.uk)
Date: 01/08/05
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Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:03:03 GMT
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:21:35 GMT, "stan snowball" <thesnowballs@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>Hello everyone, and a happy new year.
>I bought a DVD recorder for Christmas a Philips 610 with the intention of
>putting all my home Videos onto DVD, for safer keeping. I had tried with a
>couple of capture cards in my PC over the years, but always ended up with
>files too big and not very good quality, so I abandoned that idea. Anyway
>back to the DVD recorder. My boy asked me about a week ago if he could watch
>Star Wars, which we have on VHS, so I thought to myself oooh, I might as
>well make a backup of it with the DVD recorder, while he is watching it,
>completely forgetting that there may be some copy protection on the video.
>The reason I tried to make the backup is, that we have lots of video films
>and cartoons that we have bought over the years, and one or two of them are
>starting to deteriorate. After three or four tries It then dawned on me that
>their must be some protection on the video because it wouldn't record it.
>After making some enquiries I discovered Macrovision was the culprit. After
>a bit more digging round I heard that there was such a thing as a
>macrovision killer/eliminator. I found several retailers on the internet but
>all except one were in the United States, and the one in the UK where I live
>claimed to have a set of scart leads that would do the job, but they just
>looked like any other set of scart leads to me, so I didn't bother. I then
>found a couple of circuit diagrams but they must be fairly old because one
>of the main components on each circuit is discontinued. Now several years
>ago I took up electronics as a hobby, I went to college and did quite well,
>buying my own oscilloscope, frequency counter, logic probe, etc. I then
>bought a PC and that was the end of my electronics hobby. I still have all
>my gear, and think I could build one if I can get hold of a good circuit
>diagram. I would appreciate any help from anyone.
>Thank you very much, Stan.
>
De-Macrovision cables are available from :
www.sonel.com
www.multi-region.co.uk
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