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  1. hiya - I'm still having problems with my Sony DVD Rom. It just won't read Store bought DVD's. I'm running 98 and I have PowerDVD XP and whenever I put a non-ripped DVD in the drive it tells me that my TV out is enabled and not working properly and I have to disenable it but I can't for the life of me find where I do that to!
    I've tried a few things but PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT TO DO! It's a bit hard to copy things until this is working, and soon this computer is going to get a free flying lesson!
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    Sounds like you have a TV out video card that doesn't support macrovision. You can disable the TV out, and completely remove all driver references to the TV out and disable it from re-installing. Alternately, you have installed the TV out drivers for your card, but don't have the TV out hardware (ATI All-In-Wonders can have this happen).
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  3. Gazorgan - how do I find out what I have in the way of TV out hardware, software and drivers? Where are they? Nothing I search under seems to have anything about TV out. I can't even find my drivers for it - where are they? What is macrovision. How do I reinstall? Do you mean with the windows 98 cd?
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  4. My guess is you have a video card with TV out and that's enabled so to disable it you need to do that in the video cards control panel. Right click on a clear area of your windows desk top select "properties", then click on the "settings" tab then in the lower right of the resulting screen click on the "advanced" button and from there you should be able to figure out what to disable.
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  5. If you are using PowerDVD to play the movies, try playing them using the newest version of Microsoft Media Player. Its a free download from Microsoft. If Media Player plays the movies, then you know it is the PowerDVD software, which I know first hand, has this problem with certain types of video/graphics cards. Media Player does not have this problem. Hope this helps.
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  6. Forgot to mention, PowerDVD reported that the TV video out feature of my graphics card needed to be disabled. My card does not have a TV video out feature, its a PowerDVD software problem, which the company could not fix.
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  7. This might just be a matter of semantics, but did you say that you are running windows 98 AND power DVD XP? Well if this isn't just a typo, then that might be a place to look into. Power DVD XP, unless I'm mistaken, is optimized to run in a windows XP environment. At least that's what cyberlink told me was the reason to get powerdvd xp after I upgraded to win xp from 98.

    But if it is the graphics card, try doing what Bob W suggested before trying to mess with any drivers. Video card drivers can be a living hell in windows 98.
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