On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Craig Southeren wrote:
>
> The Macrovision protection works by doing strange things to the sync signals
> on the video output. This is done in such a way to not interfere with the
> majority of TV decoders. However it is designed to give VCR's a conniption
> fit.
>
The macrovision pulses inserted into the sync sygnal confuse the VCR's autogain
circuits (some VCR's may have an 'edit' switch to deal with this). At least
some VCR's go as far as blanking the video signal completely (a friend found
his blanking out every few seconds) when the macrovision signal is detected.
> I have both a PC-based DVD player (Creative Labs DXR2) and a commercial DVD
> player (Toshiba).
>
> If you are getting a PC-based player, I would recommend the program Remote
> Selector from http://www.visualdomain.net/. It allows you to disable
> Macrovision and reset the region code on a wide variety of PC-based players
Oblinux:
Is there a linux equivalent (this seemed to be a Windows only product).
>
> If you are getting a commercial player, make sure you get a regionless
> player (also sometimes called a region 0 player). Also, be aware that some
> commercial players (like mine =8^(!) will not play video CDs recorded on
> CD-R.
I think there is a difference between region 0 (or regionless) and region
autoswitching (player reconfigures itself after reading the DVD). A region 0
player would only play region 0 disks.
Some newer DVD's will not work with auto-switching players - so players that
can be switched manually (via remote) may be preferable (esp. if these types of
disks become more common).
> In either case, try to use the S-Video output - it really is worth it!
>
> I really enjoy my collection of DVDs ordered from Amazon, and so do my kids!
they ship DVD's internationally now?
I'll have to go browsing :)
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Cheers,
Jim.
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