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Posted by JimK on 01/19/06 15:23
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:17:55 -0500, Larry LaMere <ljlamere@acd.net>
wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:48:41 GMT, John <jlwsecure-usenet5@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Larry LaMere <ljlamere@acd.net> wrote in
>>news:1tkss1tujdurmdbtoj3i420nl2ketnfbgn@4ax.com:
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>>> Hey again Deke, yup that was it. Evidently the old TV had the closed
>>> captioning turned on. Now the only problem is a bright flash that
>>> seems to occur randomly but more often with a movie that's in color.
>>>
>>> I'm going to hook up a different VCR to see if that's the problem.
>>>
>>
>>Glad you got the major problem figured out. Too bad you had to go thru the
>> trouble of returning a (we know now) good recorder.
>>
>>The problem you are experiencing now is likely our good friend Macrovision.
>>It is a nice jamming system that will toss in just enough bad video to make
>>copying a tape useless. There are devices used to scrub the Macrovision
>>signal, that can be found.
>>
>>
>Any idea where"? My brother told me about something called a "dongle" but I got no idea what that
>is. And I only see him every year or so, and he has no phone.
>
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