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- From: kester@mte.ncsu.edu (Dan Kester)
- Subject: What is macrovision?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.211210.25198@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Dec14.120611.17364@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <4582@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:12:10 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <4582@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.120611.17364@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- tandri@eecg.toronto.edu (Sudarsan Tandri) writes:
- ><
- ><Is there some sort of copy protection on VHS tapes?
- >
- >Where have you been all these years? :-)
- >
- >Macrovision has been applied on tapes since somewhere around 1985.
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- I have been thinking of getting a second VCR and would like to use it for
- copying tapes I havn't watched but need to return to the video store. Somy
- question is: what is this macrovision thing, and will it keep me from copying
- rented tapes? Any simple way to get around it? Thanks. If this is a stupidly
- basic question for this group, excuse me. I've been elsewhere!
-
- Dan Kester
- kester@mte.ncsu.edu
-