Posted by Larry LaMere on 01/19/06 15:17

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:
>
>> 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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