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Posted by DexterBG on 1/26/2008, 6:16 pm, in reply to "Re: MST3K:TM DVD Re-release"
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: This is indeed welcome news. I own the VHS,
: but have always wanted a DVD copy, well at
: least I have for as long as I've had a DVD
: player. Apparently, the VHS version has some
: kind of copy protected which doesn't allow
: it to be copied in a VHS to DVD
: recorder...or so I've been told,...um not
: that I would ever try to...Oh hey look!
: Something distracting!!!
:
Oh! That! You meam "MackerelVision" (mispelling intended)? Yeah, it's been around for a l-o-n-g time. And I've have a neat little black box that let's my keep a copy of almost anything I rent. The rare DVD has some weird color banding problem, like "Kill Bill" did. Sometime that can be fixed by simple recording at EP, instead of SP. But one Japanese Anime my nephew loaned me, had the distortion at all speeds. Eventually I bought the DVD anyway (turned out to be a new release with different subtitling). This actually happens a lot to me. I have taped copies of movies from cable or a rental. And then a low-cost DVD of it becomes available. So I buy it and erase/recycle the tape. I just fill the time gap with the taped copies. And very rarely share them with relatives. So I don't put myself in the same league as retail video pirates (though I've known a couple, from the laser disc daze).
The MV guard destablizes the vertical sync tracking signal by masking it with noise. And also trashes up the color burst reference area too. Normally, Tv sets can compensate for this, and restore proper sync and color. But VCRs record the noise and even amplify its effect. So a little box must strip the noise out of the known areas of the video signal. Unfortunately, this place is also shared by the Closed Caption binary. So it often gets mangled up by the box.
The olde box I have is an analog model. There was a digitally sync model sold after what I bought. But I always suspected it would be defeated by a DVD maker shifting the noise bands a bit. However, the analog occasionally can sync on a very noisey video source (usually old VHS). Some of the old rental Dizneys were like that. Not that I encourage this practice... But the way I figure it, "why should I pay to rent it twice, because I couldn't spare the time to watch it six times the first time I rented it?". So I archive a few of my rentals (not all!).
Not to worry MPAA, the change to HDTV will probably kill 95% of the off-the-air taping. Unless set top box makers give us DVRs that burn DVD-R of saved shows. I'll bet they'll be another Court battle over that, if they do.
-Dex-
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