You should probably read that wikipedia link. I built some of the blockers or stabilizers as Wikipedia article describes them. You could see the pulses described in the output of a scope that messed up the AGC in the VCR. All the blocker did was blank out the pulses and that was enough to prevent macrovision from working on the VCR when making a copy.
Jumps out the window.
I came here to banish reddit but this thing wont leave my feed. I guess I’m going to have to take the time to filter the word.
My windows 10 installation hasn’t been booted this year. I’ve considered just getting rid of it. Right now its storing game backups that I don’t currently play.
All US made VCR’s had a circuit in them called macrovision. Its what caused the distortion in the copies when the tape was recorded with it. The German units did not have this. He purchased them through friends who were in the military. They bought them from the base exchange or px I don’t remember which. As far as PAL and NTSC I’m pretty sure he had something to deal what that as well. The guy bought the second VCR in the state right behind some super rich guy. He still had it in the 90’s and it took up most of a fairly large table.
Up until he died he made copies of everything he could get his hands on. He lived right on a county line and arranged it with his neighbor across the road in the other county to drop his netflix DVD’s in his mail box for pickup. He would get his DVD’s in the morning rip them and then put them in the neighbors mailbox before noon. It would be picked up that day and he would repeat the process. When he died I ended up with a huge amount of ripped DVD’s that I eventually gave to someone just to get them out of my way. I kinda regret that sometimes.
I had a friend with a huge copied VHS library. He ordered his equipment from Germany. No macrovision on equipment there so his copies were very good.
I think I read that but I’ve never tried. I mostly use gimp for image format conversion. My daughter on the other hand can make both Krita and Gimp do all kinds of tricks.
Twitting little twat waffle tears down trust.
Oh you wanna do a pdf? Use Libreoffice and export as pdf. Krita is a open source alternative to photoshop as is gimp. Gimp has came a long way and is a functional replacement for photoshop these days without all the ugly AI stuff.
Pseudo news is what I call them. Fake news or entertainment news is another. Nothing trustworthy without separate reliable sources. This one Unfortuanably has many other sources and you can bet that missing footage was erased to protect some predators.
You mean that Centronics SCSI terminator?
Use Krita instead
Always something there to remind me.
If you fear reprisal for a scream test then you need to make it look like an accident.
You are prosecuted where you committed the crime.
More predictable than interesting.
A large part of the price as well. Not to mention magnets that were destroyed.
So another lose lose for the rest of us. Texas gets to mooch off of us when their third world grid can’t handle the load and tax payers have to pay for the connection.