Guy Fraser wrote:
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It has gotten out of hand, I am going to have to build
a video stabilizer, to put between my cable box and
my Media Centre, just so I can watch TV uninterrupted.
Sad state of affairs, yes.
[snip]
It is indeed an evil system that wrecked the viewing and
audio on many VHS movies and now continues to wreck the
viewing of HBO television shows, and any show with HBO
commercials.
I may build one of these projects listed, but had already
started developing my own project that would just "black"
the video portion of the single line that macrovision
uses, ensuring the least degradation of the rest of the
Ah, but MacroVision comes in several "flavors", and some
of them use multiple line times of the vertical blanking
period.
video signal. Unfortunately, due to the simplicity of what
I am designing it will only be suitable for the removal
of a single line of video data, and since it will be the
line occupied by macrovision it may be in contravention
of copyright laws, so I will not be publishing my design.
I don't think that's a problem in the USA. If you came by
information legally, then by freedom of speech you can
publish it. IANAL
Best of luck, for the rest of you, some of the suggestions
in this tread appear to be good choices.
Well, building one would not be difficult, even with counters
instead of one-shots, but I'm for buying one prebuilt, myself.
Mike
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