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- From: bunky@milton.u.washington.edu (Mike)
- Subject: Macrovision
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.041037.347@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 04:10:37 GMT
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- Does anyone know how macrovision allows a video tape to be watched on
- a television but not on a vcr? I recently looked at a copy protected
- videotape and it appeared that there were 4 white bars on the last
- 8 or 9 lines in the vertical interval that periodicly (every 15 or 20
- sec) faded in and out. It looks like it's changing the average level
- of the picture to mess up the vcr. If that's the case could this be
- fixed with a clamping circuit or some kind of dc restorer circuit?
- If anyone knows the technical details of how the copy protection scheme
- works I would be very interested.
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- Thanks
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