dvd to vhs

[Guest]

Never wondered about this. Can you just feed the video outputs from a dvd player to vhs? What about protected vs. non-protected content?

[thecoalman]

Never wondered about this. Can you just feed the video outputs from a dvd player to vhs?

Yes.

What about protected vs. non-protected content?

Not positive but I think the MV signal is introduced into the analog siganl. You'll need a TBC or other device....

[ZippyP.]

You can get macro free players, or ones that are capable of being hacked.

[Guest]

Ok. I want to convert home video(dvd) to vhs.Do I need anything besides cords?

[thecoalman]

Your home DVD's won't contain any protection.

The MV would only be present on a commercial DVD. Issues with MV and home recordings only arise when going from VHS to digital. Capture cards and DVD recorders sometimes can't differentiate between what is just a video error or genuine MV protection which is just an error.

[jimmalenko]

I'm not 100% sure about this, but as I understand it, your DVD player outputs a protection-free signal to your TV - it's not as if TVs remove any protections AFAIK. Based on that theory, if you were instead to output to the "AV IN" or VIDEO IN" ports on your VCR, it would be no different to recording off TV, be it a commercial DVD or otherwise, no ?


(I'm not exactly sure how devices handle macrovision; whether it's removed at any point or just "ignored" by a TV)

[dphirschler]

When I got my first DVD player (and before I had a switchbox) I used to connect my DVD player to the TV through the VCR inputs. The picture suffered tremendously due to macrovision even though the picture was just passing through the VCR. So I don't know how or why, but connecting to the TV directly resolved this issue. Either the DVD player knows you connected to a VCR or the TV knows to ignore the MV.

Initially to get around it I used my "color corrector" (MV remover) which seemed to work. However, viewing my tapes on another TV still showed some MV artifacts (flickering), but not the slow dark to bright fades.

The best solution was to use my hacked Apex DVD player to output a MV-free signal to the VCR.

Anyways, your home recordings should not have any MV. If it did, then MV would probably come after you for not paying your license fees.


Darryl

[thecoalman]

(I'm not exactly sure how devices handle macrovision; whether it's removed at any point or just "ignored" by a TV)

I guess tht about sums it up, I'm no expert either but from the posts I've read here.... Essentially TV's are not as sensitive to the signal, it's not that it ignores, it doesan't affect it.. It is just an error in the signal. VCR's on the other hand react badly to it...