Home Video Asylum

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

try using a VCR

Some VCRs won't work, due to the "Macrovision" copyprotection in the signal coming out of the DVD player (only certain discs enable this). Others, like mine, happily ignore Macrovision, unless you try to record.

By "not working", I mean that the image will have severe problems that render it effectively unwatchable.


The other solution is to see if some place like Radio Shack has a S-Video -> RF (type F) or composite -> RF convertor, which I think is the case.


I hope it's obvious that neither of these solutions will give you the quality that's possible with a direct S-Video connection. In other words, with such an old TV, you're really missing out on a lot of the potential that DVD has to offer.

Believe it or not, some DVD players (usually Chinese imports) actually have RF (type F) outputs!! Clearly, it's a feature aimed at their domestic market.


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