AUS DVD 36 RE TOTAL RECALL DVD RANDOM BRIGHTNESS
From: "Hi-Soft" (bcanham@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Total Recall DVD - random brightness ?
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:34:23 GMT


o.k. what's Macrovision ?

and....no it's not hooked through the VCR.... DVD is straight into the skart thingy...

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"Knight76" <knight76@no-spam> wrote in message news:bd69ul$rel$1@no-spam > Defaintly sounds like macrovision to me.
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> "Hi-Soft" <bcanham@no-spam> wrote in message > news:wuZIa.971$g41.9974@no-spam > >
> > I recently purchased the limited edition Total Recall DVD ( the one in the > > Mars tin container ), and noticed that there seem to be random changes in > > brightness throughout the movie !
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> > It's not hugely noticeable, but still a bit of an annoyance... and was > > wondering if anyone else has noticed this ?
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> > Cheers,
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Subject: Re: Total Recall DVD - random brightness ?
From: Codswallop (chunkylover53@no-spam)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:55:41 GMT

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:34:23 GMT, Hi-Soft wrote in aus.dvd:

> o.k. what's Macrovision ?
> > and....no it's not hooked through the VCR.... DVD is straight into > the skart thingy...

MacroVision is copy-protection. It adjusts the brightness/contrast etc so a VCR has trouble recording it properly.

I've not heard of a SCART connector causing this problem; when you say "straight into", does your DVD player come with a SCART output or is there a convertor in there somewhere?
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