On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:10 AM, Ralph Green wrote: > > Howdy, > Tom Baker pointed you to one device. That is a reasonably expensive > unit. I saw devices a few years ago for around $100 that would do > what > you need. I was looking at those devices seriously at the time, but > never bought one. I really never needed one, because I was buying > movies on LaserDisk and Macrovision corruption can't be put on > LaserDisk > videos. The devices are sometimes referred to as image > stabilizers or > something similar. There are legitimate uses for these and they > are not > just for copying Macrovision protected content. Macrovision works by > fiddling with the vertical blanking interval of the frames. Some > stabilizers completely replace the vertical blanking interval with a > clean one. This is needed for analog devices that are sensitive to > the > fiddling. So, look for a stabilizer that rebuilds the vertical > blanking > interval and a side effect is that macrovision corruption of your > images > goes away. You also get a cleaner picture. > Good luck, > Ralph > > On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:59 -0700, Hosemonkey wrote: >> content into a form that will allow you to transfer it to DVD? Mac >> the >> Ripper works for DVD material, is there anything that serves the same >> purpose for VHS?
The old saying, "you get what you pay for", comes to mind. Having used both devices I can tell you the results using the Canopus ADVC300 are far superior to that of any other device I have tried. Of course if you don't care how the finished product comes out, any old A/D device will work. Also be prepared for some mismatch on sound and video using iMovie and iDVD. I used the '06 version and noticed this problem with some longer movies. They may have fixed this problem in later versions, but Final Cut doesn't suffer from this problem. Naturally it's more expensive though. Just a message from Doug... http://groups.google.com/group/hq-a <+> A home for the Hackintosh community. To subscribe to the HQ-A group, send email to hq-a [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
