TBC question: macrovision removal?

[Electronic M]

Could be that it does not replace or adequately clean the vertical synch where the crap lies...I've got a few consumer TBCs that make tape look good (the main design objective of a TBC), but won't touch macro-vision....

[miniman82]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Could be that it does not replace or adequately clean the vertical synch where the crap lies...I've got a few consumer TBCs that make tape look good (the main design objective of a TBC), but won't touch macro-vision....

Your guess is as good as mine, Tom. I can't find a manual for it online, so I can neither confirm nor deny. It's a piece of pro equipment, so I can't think of a reason for it not to completely strip and reinsert sync. Here's an Ebay link to one just like it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/For-a-FA-310...item4184a68490


I'm at a loss, I just wanna watch a damn movie!

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by miniman82

I'm at a loss, I just wanna watch a damn movie!

I wanna watch them also AND THAT MACROVISION CRAP MAKES THEM LOOK BAD!!!!

I have a 1997 movie on VHS called 'HOUSE ARREST' that has this crap and the video looks NOT AS GOOD AS IF IT DIDNT HAVE THIS GARBAGE!!!!!

Does anyone know how to remove it?? (W/o using anything DIGITAL to do it)

[NoPegs]

Originally Posted by Dude111

I wanna watch them also AND THAT MACROVISION CRAP MAKES THEM LOOK BAD!!!!

I have a 1997 movie on VHS called 'HOUSE ARREST' that has this crap and the video looks NOT AS GOOD AS IF IT DIDNT HAVE THIS GARBAGE!!!!!

Does anyone know how to remove it?? (W/o using anything DIGITAL to do it)

Score one of the "stereo" RF modulators sold by Radioshack between 2000 and 2003. Somehow they more or less blatantly ignore macrovision.

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by NoPegs

Score one of the "stereo" RF modulators sold by Radioshack between 2000 and 2003. Somehow they more or less blatantly ignore macrovision.

Back in 2001 or so I bought 3 "Stereo 2000" modulators on clearance at RS. Is that the one? Only MTS Stereo modulator I recall ever seeing for sale at RS.

[NoPegs]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Back in 2001 or so I bought 3 "Stereo 2000" modulators on clearance at RS. Is that the one? Only MTS Stereo modulator I recall ever seeing for sale at RS.

No, this was the regular $29.99 modulator box at the time. It has composite and L/R RCA jacks and an S-Video jack (Screen-door on a submarine!) on it, and the only thing up front was a red LED. I'm gonna go dig through some things and see if I can't scare up the part number for us. (I worked at the shack from 2002-2005.)

[Ed in Tx]

Actually it is called a "Theater 2001" stereo modulator. I had to go look to refresh my memory. Cost was way more than $29.95 for a true MTS stereo modulator back then, more like $200-300. I don't know if it removes the copyguard junk.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by NoPegs

No, this was the regular $29.99 modulator box at the time. It has composite and L/R RCA jacks and an S-Video jack (Screen-door on a submarine!) on it

Hmmmm I wonder if I have that one??

I found 2 RF modulators @ salvation army and 1 of them has what you describe!

Cat # PH61159 (PH - Philips??)

On the back its got

RF in/out Audio L/R VIDEO IN and an S-video jack.....

On the front

A RED light (MOD. ON) and a channel 3 or 4 switch......

[NJRoadfan]

Originally Posted by NoPegs

Score one of the "stereo" RF modulators sold by Radioshack between 2000 and 2003. Somehow they more or less blatantly ignore macrovision.

Catalog number on the stereo one is 15-2525. It has "stereo" written on the case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk0wDG_bZwc

[Ed in Tx]

Interesting. This modulator I have that I bought over at the Radio Shack Clearance Center (...in FW off of Northside Drive and I-35W, used to go there every 2nd or 3rd Saturday don't remember exactly at 7 AM lined up and waiting...) back in 2000-2001 is an early possibility they probably cleared out, too expensive. I bought 3 of these discontinued items for $30 ea. No single chip wonder here like in their later model in Chris Cuff's video. Notice the separate DBX encoder chip to make it exactly right. VR2 I marked on the board back then, that's the video level. Was low out of the box.

[dtvmcdonald]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Interesting. This modulator I have that I bought over at the Radio Shack Clearance Center (...in FW off of Northside Drive and I-35W, used to go there every 2nd or 3rd Saturday don't remember exactly at 7 AM lined up and waiting...)

Too bad that was not there when I was a kid ... that is walking distance of
my home! And my mother was, for a time, Mr. Tandy's receptionist.

[Chip Chester]

Do you have a link to a manual for your TBC? (Now looks like no.) Does it have a white clip adjustment? Adjustment for which vertical interval lines are blanked? (I may be remembering BetaSP VTRs rather than TBCs on the blanking.)

(Remarkably, the one on koppix.net has one for a buy-it-now price of $11.)

Chip

[ppppenguin]

TBC manufacturers are understandably a bit reluctant to say whether their products will strip Macrovision. In practice I understand that industrial/professional TBCs will do this. They will certainly insert new blanking and syncs.