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I'm about to purchase a new VCR and I'd like to use one of its RCA inputs with my DVD. I know that this will rcase a problem with the Macrovision protection encoded in most DVDs. I heard that some models of VCRs offer a DVD pass through feature that de-activates the copy protection when the VCR is not recording, thereby allowing the VCR to do video switch while protecting copy rights. Does anyone know which brands/models offer this feature.I also heard a rumor that some brands of VCRs don't respond to the macrovision protection at all. Any idea?
Don't make me have ta by a time-base correcter.
Thanks
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Macrovision operates sucessfully due to the "advanced" circuitry of modern VCRs. If you get an "old" VCR from the '80s, you will probably find that Macrovision doesn't work like it's suppose to on most of these VCRs. As to the new VCRs that pass the signal while not recording, I don't know of any off hand. Why are you going through a VCR? RF connector for the TV's input? Get a converter from Parts Express to RF the DVD players RCA outputs. Only one set of RCA inputs on the TV? Get an RCA switch box. Or, upgrade the TV.
I tried doing a pass-through from my DVD to TV on a circa-1980 RCA VCR. What I experienced was a periodic darkening and brightening of the picture. Not really a degradation or noise, as Macrovision is supposed to do, but the periodic effect must have come from the circuitry in the VCR being slightly out of sync with the DVD signal in some way.
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