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- From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: Does Macrovision cause brightness fluctuations?
- Message-ID: <4463@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 17:32:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.141052.11026@cs.wisc.edu> <4448@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Nov18.162357.15092@sei.cmu.edu> <4456@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Nov20.155027.26930@sei.cmu.edu> <20NOV199215053097@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <20NOV199215053097@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> kimnach@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH) writes:
- <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:
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- <>
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- <>>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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- <>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!
-
- Laserdiscs cannot have Macrovision applied to it, since it (Macrovision) would
- have to be placed where all of the LD's control signals are.
-
- There was talk of having new LD players add the Macrovision signal, but I
- haven't heard much about that since.
-
- So, for the foreseeable future, laserdiscs are safe.
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