Video Asylum

Posted by digital-j on January 05, 2004 at 11:14:06

In Reply to: Re: why not fair use? posted by Larry S on October 20, 2003 at 12:32:16:

Ok, finally here a process that can be used to make [legal] copies of a DVD to a video tape or DVD recorder. I know this works because I use this process myself.

Purchase a digital video mixer known as the MX-1 by Videonics. Put your input into the mixer and connect your recorder to the output. In most cases (depending on your recorder) this will defeat the macrovision copyright protection. If this doesn't work, simply initiate a manual input transition from an input that has no signal to your copyright protected input to about 95% complete but don't transition all the way 100% to the copyrighted input and that will certainly defeat the signal. You'll have to play with this to get a stable full screen picture and defeat the signal at the same time. Try different transition effects (use solids/no dissolves).

You can get a Videonics mixer off eBay for around $80.

Good luck and remember only to do this if making a copy of your own purchased movie to watch on your combo VCR when traveling with kids. ;-)