Posted: 1/1/2003 5:51:54 PM EDT
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Greetings: In our bedroom, we have a pretty basic Magnavox DVD player hooked up to an older Zenith 13-inch TV/VCR combo. When playing most (not all) DVDs, the brightness on the screen fluctuates up and down on about a 10-second period. Very annoying. It goes from "too dark" to "too bright" throughout the playing time. I said most DVDs because we have not noticed this effect on two DVDs we rented. Because of some hard-wiring issues elsewhere in Casa Diesel, Im not really able to hook this thing up to other TV sets in the house. Has anyone else experienced this with a DVD player? Is it just some funky hookup issue? Poltergeists? Van Allen radiation? Thanks for any advice. |
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A common problem, apparently caused by the copy protection present on some disks. It doesn't affect TVs, but drives VCRs (and some VCR/TV combos) bonkers. A similar copy protection scheme ("Macrovision") was encoded on most videotapes to discourage unauthorized copying. At one time, there were some add-on video accessories on the market that defeated it. There may still be some variants around that will also work for videodisks. |
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Thanks, boys. I think bastiat is onto it; the DVD player does not have a coax output, so I'm going into the TV/VCR through the RCA jacks. With the RF converter, I can go coax into the set. Thanks. Copy protection. Works great, just like gun control laws. I mean, there are no illegal copies of DVD movies, are there? Sheesh. |