I picked a up really cute little DVD player at Walmart for $27. It is really easy to use, seems to work great, but on the 3rd movie we watched on it the brightness constantly varies from too light to too dark. The 4th movie plays fine.
Reading the manual it has a warning about the built in MACRO Vision copy protection not being compatible with running the A/V cables through a VCR which is my prefered way of using all 3 of my DVD players.
So does anyone know if the brightness fading in and out is the copy protection scheme reacting to macro vision? It sounds more like the picture gets scrambled from the manual.
Is the fading in and out normal, or is the DVD player defective and I need to exchange it.
Yes - I can crack this in a heart beat.
I already have 2 ways to rip DVD to VHS. Including a stand alone machine with no copy protection.
I can strip the protection out of the movies on my PC and burn to clean DL DVDs.
PS The manual's recommendation is to go buy a new TV set that has A/V or to buy an RF modulator. But since it's my birthday I'll skip the usual marketing and RIAA/MPAA tirade.
Though I may go exchange five or six of these to make sure I cost the manufacturer and Walmart 5 times what the player sells for. (Oops, that was tirade-ish.)
Reading the manual it has a warning about the built in MACRO Vision copy protection not being compatible with running the A/V cables through a VCR which is my prefered way of using all 3 of my DVD players.
So does anyone know if the brightness fading in and out is the copy protection scheme reacting to macro vision? It sounds more like the picture gets scrambled from the manual.
Is the fading in and out normal, or is the DVD player defective and I need to exchange it.
Yes - I can crack this in a heart beat.
I already have 2 ways to rip DVD to VHS. Including a stand alone machine with no copy protection.
I can strip the protection out of the movies on my PC and burn to clean DL DVDs.
PS The manual's recommendation is to go buy a new TV set that has A/V or to buy an RF modulator. But since it's my birthday I'll skip the usual marketing and RIAA/MPAA tirade.
Though I may go exchange five or six of these to make sure I cost the manufacturer and Walmart 5 times what the player sells for. (Oops, that was tirade-ish.)