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- From: kimnach@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH)
- Subject: Re: Does Macrovision cause brightness fluctuations?
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- In article <1992Nov20.155027.26930@sei.cmu.edu>, kh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Haverstock) writes...
- >In article Re: Does Macrovision cause brightness fluctuations? of 21 Nov 92 05:09:21 GMT brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >
- >
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >
- >My gaff. You're absolutely right. Gain circuitry processes incoming video,
- >not output.
- >
- >My television is also less-than-fond of the stuff and watching Macro'd
- >movies is extremely annoying. Good luck in the wars.
-
- I hope that he does have success. However, we should all write our
- complaints--en masse, perhaps--to increase the odds of something being done
- to correct this so-called "non-existant" problem which may find it's way
- onto LDs. It's not just Vidiot's crusade, afterall!
-
- >
- >
- >Kurt
- >
- >
-
-
- Greg
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