Picture gets bright, then dark, then bright...

[nfl2k2]

this is wierd. I have a apex500w hooked up to my 19' tv and it plays burned svcds/vcds good. but when i play a regular dvd, it gets bright, then very dark, then bright, then dark every 10 or so seconds. please tell me why, it's annoying.

[Erwin]

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On 2001-09-11 23:47:20, nfl2k2 wrote:
this is wierd. I have a apex500w hooked up to my 19' tv and it plays burned svcds/vcds good. but when i play a regular dvd, it gets bright, then very dark, then bright, then dark every 10 or so seconds. please tell me why, it's annoying.
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This may be a result of macrovision. Do you have it hooked up through any adapters or a VCR?

[Vejita-sama]

That is 100% macrovision. You need to plug your DVD player directly into your TV (this will fix it). It's there to stop people from making copies of DVD to VHS.

[nfl2k2]

yeah, it's plugged into my vcr. that sucks cause I have to buy a 30$ converter from radio shack now

[Erwin]

"It's there to stop people from making copies of DVD to VHS."

HeHeHe......sorry couldn't resist

[VelocityCoder]

well, there might be two other things you could try (if you still want it running through your VCR):
1.) check and see if there is a Macrovision hack for your DVD player (I do think Apex's generally have a hack for MV and region)
2.) there are de-MV boxes out there that remove type-1 and type-2 MV (helpful for copying DVDs and VHS tapes)