VHS Copy Protection?

[Greyhair]

I'm trying to capture a video. It's an old Sherlock Holmes VHS I purchased off Half.com. It plays fine. It plays in the capture window fine. However, when I go to play the captured file, it has a huge center stripe missing from the middle of the picture.

I've never run into that before with many, many other tapes I've captured. Is is a copy protection of some type? How do I get rid of it?

TIA

[Greyhair]

Just did a search on it (I know, should have done that first) and someone else said it's macrovision. I've never run across that on any tapes I've bought second hand. Go figure.

Anyway, it was suggested I try the 1.08 wdm drivers, which I'm going to now try and find.

[kitty]

A Sima video color corrector seems to get rid of such stripes if your driver won't. Read about them in earlier threads.

[Greyhair]

Thanks kitty.

Changing to the wdm 1.08 drivers worked like a charm. Is there any downside to using the old drivers?