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watching DVD's from Mac on TV---STUPID MACROVISION!!!
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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okay, i just got a Radeon 8500 in my G4 (actually, a PC Radeon 8500 flashed with a Mac ROM  ), and i hooked my vcr to the S-video out via the S-video to composite adapter. video looks fine on the TV.
so i go and put in a DVD, and i get the old 'screen goes bright, screen goes dark' while watching the movie. i remember a similar effect when trying to dub MacroVision protected tapes a long time ago. so is this copy protection on DVD's too? i've tried 3 commercial DVD's that i have, and they all do this. a DVD i made using iDVD2 doesn't.
could it be related to the fact that i'm using the composite adapter? i don't have an S-video input on my TV, so i can't try it out straight S-video to S-video.
if anyone out there is watching DVD's using the video out on their video card, do you have the same problems? also, are there anyways to circumvent this copy protection? i guess i could rip the DVD in 9 using DVDextractor, removing the copy protection, but that's a pain for every movie. i just want to pop in a DVD, hook up a cable, and be done with it...is that so wrong? 
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Ok, so I could be wrong here but I think it'll be because you have the Mac wired up to the TV via a VCR; from what I remember this causes the Macrovision protection to kick in.
Hook the Mac straight up to the TV and it should play fine.
McBear
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You will have to go straight to the TV unfortunately. I had the same exact problem trying to use my ibook to watch DVD's on the big screen. I was using the convenient front jacks on my vcr and the screen did the old BRIGHT/DARK trick... stupid macrovision.
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If you MUST hook through a VCR (if your TV lacks RCA hookups) you'll need to go to RadioShack or Best Buy or somewhere and get an RF Modulator. This removes your faggy macrovision.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally posted by Mac Guru:
<STRONG>If you MUST hook through a VCR (if your TV lacks RCA hookups) you'll need to go to RadioShack or Best Buy or somewhere and get an RF Modulator. This removes your faggy macrovision.
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yeah, that's what i was thinking, go the RF modulator route. back when i used to dub tapes with macrovision, i would use a coax out on the playback vcr into tv. and that tv had a coax monitor out, so i could just plug that into the dub vcr; that circumvented macrovison.
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