At 10:31 PM 11/18/2001 +0100, Anonymous wrote: >A number of people are selling the "Sima SED-CM" for anywhere between $25 and $60, which will supposedly remove Level 1 Macrovision. Sima makes a more pricey device, the "Color Corrector" which claims it will remove both level 1 and Level 2.
>Does anyone have any experience with either of these? I've got diagrams for building my own device, but estimate parts at a minimum of $80, not accounting for soldering time. (I'm specifically looking for a device that will take RCA in, perform its job, and give me an RCA out.) I've had a Sima SCC for over six months. It works flawlessly on every DVD I've thrown at it. >Until very recently, when I acquired a new laptop with a DVD player, I was oblivious to the fact that content providers had so thoroughly spread their poison as to reach the legitimate attempts of user Alice to route her laptop's tv-out through Alice's vcr, so as to watch a DVD on a 21" tv instead of a 14" LCD. >Plan B is, of course, to continue ripping DVDs to my HDD, remove the Macrovision, and contribute the compressed results to the body of DivX ;-) works out there. I tried DivX but later changed to sVCD. At the higher bit rates its virtually broadcast quality, much better than VHS (even S-VHS), and you can cut CDs to play on many home theater DVDs and on any Windows laptop using PowerDVD. Great for time shifting your DVD rentals ;-)
