On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 04:33 am, Russell Chapman wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
[2] On my Chinese region-free, macrovision free NTSC/PAL play-anything sub $100 DVD player from TescoI always thought that the macrovision stuff was in the recording device (ie the VCR/DVR) and the media stream itself, not in the playback device. Does the macrovision encoding get added to the signal by the output device?
On DVD the player adds the macrovision scrambling according to flag bits on the media. If the player ignores these instructions, the scrambling doesn't get added.That's why you can switch it off :)
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