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- From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: Does Macrovision cause brightness fluctuations?
- Message-ID: <4456@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 05:09:21 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.141052.11026@cs.wisc.edu> <4448@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Nov18.162357.15092@sei.cmu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov18.162357.15092@sei.cmu.edu> kh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Haverstock) writes:
- <In article Re: Does Macrovision cause brightness fluctuations? of 18 Nov 92 05:26:38 GMT brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- <
- <
- <>It isn't the VCR, but the TV that is having trouble with the bright Macrovision
- <>pulses. Welcome to the world of Macrovision NOT causing problems (that's what
- <>the Macrovision people claim).
- <
- <Of course, the macrovision people will blame it on your TV...in reality, the
- <pulses are screwing up your AGC circuitry in the VCR.
-
- Wrong. The AGC screwup is during copying from one VCR to another. If you
- are playing the tape directly to the TV (not going through another VCR), then
- it is the TV that is having problems with the Macrovision.
-
- There are many TVs that have problems with Macrovision. The Macrovision
- company claims not. My letter to a trade publication should proabably appear
- next month (since it wasn't in the recent issue). Macrovision is supposidly
- going to respond to my complaints about the signal. I will post them when
- I get it.
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