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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.video
- Subject: Re: Macrovision
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.020805.13569@panix.com>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 02:08:05 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.041037.347@u.washington.edu> <1992Sep2.133450.18671@panix.com> <2859@perl-sun.dwrsun4.UUCP>
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- In article <2859@perl-sun.dwrsun4.UUCP> perl@dwrsun4.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) writes:
- >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.
-
-
- I've posted about this before but perhaps this would be a good time to
- bring it up again. The pros on CompuServe's CE Forum said during a
- discussion of Macrovision that with the schematic you can modify any
- VCR to ignore Macrovision. You do this by clipping the capacitor which
- forms the time constant for the AGC circuit, effectively disabling the
- AGC. Yes, you won't get automatic level control, but the video signals
- fed to most comsumer VCR's are so compressed anyway that there wouldn't
- be much danger.
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