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yes to all the application's you have mentioned. the problem occures
because the macrovision implimentation is douring the hardware stage, not
actually on the DVD itself. besides that not sure what to tell you except
get a dvd player that you can disable the macrovision on. good luck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Mackay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:52 AM
Subject: MD: dvd copyright - DVD authoring
>
> Dear Sirs'
>
> Re the Macrovision copy-protection system used to stop DVDs being copied
to
> VHS:
> ===========BEGIN QUOTE=======================
> > That's macrovison man. A totally analogue copy protection scheme
> > that's been
> > around since the late 80s at least, not just on DVD, but VHS as
> > well. It is
> > a bunch of gobly gook that resided in the vertical blanking buffer on
old
> > VHS tapes that screws up the signal for copies, but not laserdisc (since
> > that part of the signal is used for time info). In DVDs it is actually
> > generated by the hardware (I assume) since it's possible to turn
> > it on and
> > off.
> =================END QUOTE====================
>
> Can someone author a DVD such as a system test and tune-up DVD and make
sure
> that Macrovision is not implemented by DVD players? This is because the
> Macrovision system has been known to cause some TVs to play up or improper
> results when tuning-up a DVD home-theatre system. As well, recording to
VHS
> could be intended for example if the viewing device is a VHS player hooked
> up to a video projector.
>
> Also, there are some software packages which allow people to author DVD
> content for copying to a DLT tape which is used for volume replication; or
> burning to a DVD-R for "one-off" DVDs. Has anyone ever dabbled with some
of
> these programs?
>
> WIIth regards,
>
> Simon Mackay
>
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