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- From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
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- Subject: Re: Macrovision
- Message-ID: <3962@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 02:46:55 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.041037.347@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep2.041037.347@u.washington.edu> bunky@milton.u.washington.edu (Mike) writes:
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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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- I posted how Macrovision works a little bit ago.
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- What you can't see are the extra horizontal sync pulses right before the white
- pulses. Those and the white pules are what affect the VCR that tries to dub
- the protected tape.
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