[opendtv] Re: HDMI issues

  • From: "John Shutt" <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:16:58 -0500

Really?  This is news to me!  Has anybody else ever seen Macrovision 
transmitted?  With the tricks it plays with sync, I didn't think that 
Macrovision was FCC legal.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>

> (I've discovered that frequently, NTSC OTA stations transmit with
> Macrovision, which prevents the DVDR 75/17 from recording. Ditto for a
> colleague of mine who has this same recorder, although he didn't know it
> was a copy protection problem. He thought his box was bad and was
> blaming Philips. I've contacted both NBC and CBS about this, and they
> both denied doing any such thing on purpose. However, after being made
> aware of the problem, it seems to stop happening. Fox and UPN also have
> done this occasionally.)


 
 
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