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| Everett Senior Member 2088 Posts 6/05 |  Posted - May 25 2006 : 4:16PMI thought I would never rent or buy or run into a XXX dvd with a Macrovision copy guard on it. But the inevitable happened. I purchased a dvd put out by a Florida Amateur company called Platinum Media. The title was Mary Carey's 1st Shoot 48 minutes long & assumedly the first ever XXX footage of the now famous gubernatorial/pornstar Calif. candidate. Why on earth would an amateur company, of all people, put Macrovision on their product? [Link] |
Bill  All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - May 25 2006 : 8:00PM [Link] |
| juha Senior Member 2752 Posts 3/05 | Posted - May 26 2006 : 4:15PM [Link] |
| Everett Senior Member 2088 Posts 6/05 | Posted - May 30 2006 : 3:01PM [Link] |
| Saki At-Large 2087 Posts 11/99 | Posted - May 30 2006 : 10:48PM FWIW, All Worlds Video also uses Macrovision. [Link] |
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| budtugley Senior Member One man's trash can be the next man's treasure. 1187 Posts 1/04 | Posted - May 31 2006 : 2:28AM I've never had a problem watching DVD's in there. The way I understand it, the Macrosplat engages when it detects the magnetic field necessary for the VCR machine to copy. I watch Disney DVD's, all of which are copy-protected and they play OK but if someone engages the record feature, then the color fades out and the picture rolls. AFAIK, as long as one doesn't try to copy the DVD disk on the VCR machine, it should play fine. [Link] |
| Saki At-Large 2087 Posts 11/99 | Posted - May 31 2006 : 8:40AM |
| DVDwishes ComX 1060 Posts 7/04 | Posted - May 31 2006 : 4:23PM Whoever is running their marketing department over there should be shot. They're going about keeping fans the WRONG way! [Link] |
| Bill All-Star Member 5334 Posts 6/00 | Posted - May 31 2006 : 7:12PM VCR's have a circuit in them called the Automatic Gain Control (AGC). What this circuit does is to detect how dark or light the picture of the original content is and makes adjustments to the brightness so that the recording looks as good as possible. Most VCR's have this circuit turned on all of the time, not just when the VCR is recording (although some VCR's only enable AGC when recording) Essentially, Macrovision took advantage of the fact that VCR's do this and trick the VCR into making those adjustments when they aren't necessary. What Macrovision does is to insert very dark or very light signals into an area of the signal that TV's don't attempt to display, but VCR's do attempt to record. When the AGC sees the very dark signal, it thinks that it needs to make the picture brighter and when it sees a very light signal, it attempts to make the picture darker. [Link] |
| gapeape Deactivated User usa 106 Posts 2/06 | Posted - May 31 2006 : 7:38PM one notable exception of new dvd titles that are not copy protected are those from northstar associates. titles like north pole, deep throat this, peter north's pov, latina fever, first offense, etc. i guess peter north doesn't feel the need to copy protect. also, most of the assman and debauchery titles, the ones that le castel did, are not copy protected either. i think this was true of most older anabolic and diabolic titles. there are more examples but these are the ones that come to mind at the moment. [Link] |
| mapofhawaii Senior Member 1050 Posts 3/06 | Posted - May 31 2006 : 9:47PM Some companies release stuff from multiple directors (Red Light, Evil Angel, Platium X, etc), but while most of the releases use it, not all do. I guess it's up to the director. I think Wicked was the first big company to copy protect all their releases. [Link] |
| Everett Senior Member 2088 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Jun 17 2006 : 11:40AM [Link] |
| Coyote Member Daylight Savings Time, is it really Necessary? 972 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Jul 16 2006 : 3:13AM Edited by - Bill on 7/16/2006 10:59:12 AM [Link] |
| Coyote Member Daylight Savings Time, is it really Necessary? 972 Posts 3/04 | Posted - Jul 16 2006 : 2:17PM [Link] |
| baronorca Member Montana 528 Posts 1/01 | Posted - Jul 16 2006 : 7:11PM [Link] |
| Gentleman Jon All-Star Member 1881 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Jul 16 2006 : 7:40PM [Link] |
| Everett Senior Member 2088 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Jul 20 2006 : 8:11PM [Link] |
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