Removing Macrovision from VHS Tapes

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crjackson

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Okay, I may be in the wrong forum area, if so then I'm sorry about that.

I've recently been transfering my VHS tapes (VIA Pinnacle Studio 7, and DC10Plus) to DVD. I've had great results but have run into a snag on some of my favorites. MACROVISION is distorting colors and causing flicker (like it's supposed to) and screwing up my captured mgs.

I know it's easy when ripping a DVD to remove the Macrovision crap, but is there a way to remove it from the captured tape?

What do I need to do, to clear the macrovision from my VHS tapes for DVD-R reproduction?

Thanks...
 
VIPER_1069

VIPER_1069

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a hardware device called a bug blaster / video stablizer can be purchased from a good video/hifi magazine mail order that you feed an input to and an output from this has lockable vertical sync and horizontal sync buttons and video gain and balance gain settings and brightness controls to stabelize the colorwash that macrovision causes !

also you could possible feed the signal into yer puter graphics card if it has composite video input and output feed the signal in and then loop it out to a vcr and use software to stablize the signal ! i know you can bypass macro vision using tv tool with some gfx cards and for other cards gettin older drivers that are pre macro vision can help :D

perhaps chicken man or other video gurus can enlighten more here as they deal more with video and stuff related to this topic :D
 
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crjackson

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VIPER_1069 said:
a hardware device called a bug blaster / video stablizer can be purchased from a good video/hifi magazine mail order that you feed an input to and an output from this has lockable vertical sync and horizontal sync buttons and video gain and balance gain settings and brightness controls to stabelize the colorwash that macrovision causes !

also you could possible feed the signal into yer puter graphics card if it has composite video input and output feed the signal in and then loop it out to a vcr and use software to stablize the signal ! i know you can bypass macro vision using tv tool with some gfx cards and for other cards gettin older drivers that are pre macro vision can help :D

perhaps chicken man or other video gurus can enlighten more here as they deal more with video and stuff related to this topic :D
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My GF2 card doesn't have any video i/o connectors for composit. I know it can be filtered by software somewhere, because the POS ATI/USB device I RMA'd had a software patch that I could screen it out with. Unfortunately it couldn't do anything else very good. This Pinnacle setup is great, I just need to strip off the macrovision.

I'll prolly end up looking for a hardware solution as suggested.
 
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crjackson

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I found one that removes all macrovision from any source for $39.00.

If anyone else is interested it's at
h**p://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1365&AID=5439461&PID=1091970

Just replace the ** in the address with tt...

Thanks guys...
 
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