now that sounds like more viable solution. Besides.... is there a law that
says i may not put my DVD content onto a video tape?
I'm supposedly allowed to copy _MY_ CD's to tapes for listening to in _MY_
car ...... or did i get it wrong completely.
:)

On Monday 20 January 2003 09:46 am, you wrote:
> Oh yeah, there is a chip all right. The same one that converts the digital
> video stream to analog also adds the macrovision pulses. So pulling the
> chip certainly gets rid of the M/V, and all your analog video as well.
>
> I suppose you could hack in a PIC to modify the I2C command stream to
> clear the "add M/V" bit in the D/A.
>
> John Ward wrote:
> > Elektor magazine had a macrovision killer in their bumper edition last
> > year.
> >
> > if youre feeling a bit brave, some people reckon that there could be a
> > chip in the signal path doing the macrovision formatting ?
> >
> > :))
> >
> > On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:51 am, Tony Antoniou wrote:
> > > Considering your TV has S-Video, I won't ask about its age - that's
> > > irrelevant in your case.
> > >
> > > If it's a rear projection TV, some of those are known to have such
> > > issues and it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
> > >
> > > Personally, I recommend you just get a macrovision killer and run that
> > > mutha in between.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pic microcontroller discussion list
> > > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Ammerman
> > > Sent: Saturday, 18 January 2003 1:24
> > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> > > Subject: Re: [OT]: Am I getting Macrovisioned?
> > >
> > > No daisy-chaining involved.
> > >
> > > Video out (rca or s-video) from DVD directly into video in (ditto) on
> > > TV. ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Andy Kunz" <montana@FAST.NET>
> > > To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
> > > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:13 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [OT]: Am I getting Macrovisioned?
> > >
> > > > >However, when watching DVD's I often get a fast vertical jitter on
> > > > > the screen, probably about 8 to 12 jitters per second. The picture
> > > > > jumps up
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > > >down perhaps 1/2 to 1 inch.
> > > >
> > > > We had a similar problem when we attached our DVD player.  Turns out
> > > > there was an obscure line in the manual (my daughter found it, not
> > > > me) that said you couldn't daisy-chain them.
> > > >
> > > > We got a box from Radio Shack, I forget the name, that did the video
> > > > switching and did an EXCELLENT job of solving the problem.
>
> Yeah, a simple top down horizontal wipe takes out the M/V.
> Unfortunately they don't make the box any more.
>
> Robert

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Thank-you for your time.

John Ward

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