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stan snowball
- Jan 1, 1970
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Hello everyone, and a happy new year.
I bought a DVD recorder for Christmas a Philips 610 with the intention of
putting all my home Videos onto DVD, for safer keeping. I had tried with a
couple of capture cards in my PC over the years, but always ended up with
files too big and not very good quality, so I abandoned that idea. Anyway
back to the DVD recorder. My boy asked me about a week ago if he could watch
Star Wars, which we have on VHS, so I thought to myself oooh, I might as
well make a backup of it with the DVD recorder, while he is watching it,
completely forgetting that there may be some copy protection on the video.
The reason I tried to make the backup is, that we have lots of video films
and cartoons that we have bought over the years, and one or two of them are
starting to deteriorate. After three or four tries It then dawned on me that
their must be some protection on the video because it wouldn't record it.
After making some enquiries I discovered Macrovision was the culprit. After
a bit more digging round I heard that there was such a thing as a
macrovision killer/eliminator. I found several retailers on the internet but
all except one were in the United States, and the one in the UK where I live
claimed to have a set of scart leads that would do the job, but they just
looked like any other set of scart leads to me, so I didn't bother. I then
found a couple of circuit diagrams but they must be fairly old because one
of the main components on each circuit is discontinued. Now several years
ago I took up electronics as a hobby, I went to college and did quite well,
buying my own oscilloscope, frequency counter, logic probe, etc. I then
bought a PC and that was the end of my electronics hobby. I still have all
my gear, and think I could build one if I can get hold of a good circuit
diagram. I would appreciate any help from anyone.
Thank you very much, Stan.
I bought a DVD recorder for Christmas a Philips 610 with the intention of
putting all my home Videos onto DVD, for safer keeping. I had tried with a
couple of capture cards in my PC over the years, but always ended up with
files too big and not very good quality, so I abandoned that idea. Anyway
back to the DVD recorder. My boy asked me about a week ago if he could watch
Star Wars, which we have on VHS, so I thought to myself oooh, I might as
well make a backup of it with the DVD recorder, while he is watching it,
completely forgetting that there may be some copy protection on the video.
The reason I tried to make the backup is, that we have lots of video films
and cartoons that we have bought over the years, and one or two of them are
starting to deteriorate. After three or four tries It then dawned on me that
their must be some protection on the video because it wouldn't record it.
After making some enquiries I discovered Macrovision was the culprit. After
a bit more digging round I heard that there was such a thing as a
macrovision killer/eliminator. I found several retailers on the internet but
all except one were in the United States, and the one in the UK where I live
claimed to have a set of scart leads that would do the job, but they just
looked like any other set of scart leads to me, so I didn't bother. I then
found a couple of circuit diagrams but they must be fairly old because one
of the main components on each circuit is discontinued. Now several years
ago I took up electronics as a hobby, I went to college and did quite well,
buying my own oscilloscope, frequency counter, logic probe, etc. I then
bought a PC and that was the end of my electronics hobby. I still have all
my gear, and think I could build one if I can get hold of a good circuit
diagram. I would appreciate any help from anyone.
Thank you very much, Stan.