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- From: perl@dwrsun4.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.video
- Subject: Re: Macrovision
- Message-ID: <2859@perl-sun.dwrsun4.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 18:10:01 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.041037.347@u.washington.edu> <1992Sep2.133450.18671@panix.com>
- Organization: Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York
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- In article <1992Sep2.133450.18671@panix.com>, schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
- > Macrovision inserts very bright pulses in the vertical blank interval.
- > Most VCR's use this when setting AGC video level, and get fooled into
- > thinking the video levle is much brighter than the picture area really
- > is. Most TV's don't. Dunno why.
-
- Some years ago a VCR maker (forgot which one) came out with a machine
- which used a different kind of AGC circuit which was not affected by
- Macrovision. It was not their intention to defeat Macrovision, it just
- worked out that way because Macrovision takes advantage of an
- unintended behavioral characteristic of the extant AGC circuit. The
- Macrovision people complained and the VCR maker modified the new
- circuit so that it would reject a Macrovision signal.
-
- Robert Perlberg
- Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., New York
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