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- From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: What is macrovision?
- Message-ID: <4624@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:35:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.120611.17364@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <4582@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Dec21.211210.25198@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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- In article <1992Dec21.211210.25198@ncsu.edu> kester@mte.ncsu.edu (Dan Kester) writes:
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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!
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- The answers to your questions, in order, are:
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- 1) Copy protection - anti copy scheme
- 2) Yes
- 3) Yes
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- For #3, get a Macrovision elimination box. See ads in Video Magazine.
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