convert VHS to DVD

[Mike McCarty]

Guy Fraser wrote:

[snip]

> 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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