[ChrisW6ATV]

The ability to turn off the Macrovision off (or change the region code) will never be in the normal menus, nor will it be mentioned in the instruction manual, because strictly speaking it IS illegal to make those changes (at least in the USA, due to our stupid DMCA law). It is always a "hidden" option, found only by hitting some unusual combination of keys on the remote control or similar. Few if any major-brand DVD players will even have these obscure menu options, because they customize players for specific countries (and would, of course, block those options in players intended for the USA). Some countries such as Australia (thank goodness their government has some sense!) have outlawed the use of region coding and/or have no penalties for defeating such unwanted "features", so low-priced players have the menu options to make the players salable in more countries.

I put a link in an earlier post to search for the hidden menus on any player. For those of us with retrace-line problems or other issues with our early TVs, it could be worthwhile to look up the cheap players available to see if they can be set to have a clean output signal.