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| From | "Jeff" <jeff.teez@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: The Compleat Beatles and Let It Be / last of the long posts |
| Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:06:19 -0500 |
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> Jeff,
I have an ATI wonder pro Video and TV capture card.
I hook my VCR up to the card and using the software that
comes with it record it to my harddrive. There are all
kinds of settings for quality, sound etc.
I have never run across a HVS tape that would not
record onto my HD. Then I juse use NERO to create a DVD
of the video file.
> michael
I promise to take this off-list immediately since it's fairly technical
and probably not of general interest, but I'll post this last bit just
in case:
Firstly, thanks Michael. That's a real nice video card from what I've
read. I wish I owned one. :-)
I understand, also from what I've recently read, that the problem I'm
having with
Macrovision is that my RCA VCR is reading the tape and sending the
garbled signal out, and that that is all my VCR is capable of doing.
It's incapable of ignoring the macrovision part of the video
signal. Some older model VCR's and most VHS camcorders (damn! sold mine
years ago!) will ignore the macrovision signal and work just fine. I
bought a nice HP DVD Movie Writer dc5000 that captures, edits and
authors, all in the same standalone machine. When I try to capture
(digitize) any Macrovision-protected VHS tape, my HP writer tells me it
can't do that because of the protection. Not that it won't, it just
can't. (It handles my home-made (unprotected) VHS tapes beautifully.) In
other words, when the video signal leaves my vcr, it's already scrambled
and my writer "sees" that and knows that it doesn't have the chip to
descramble that signal. That's why there's a nice sized aftermarket in
selling
descramblers. They call them video stabilizers. A google search on
"defeat macrovision" will lead to most of what I've been reading,
including the different types of stabilizers available. I'd love to hear
from someone that I'm making this more difficult than it really is or
has to be.
Both Let It Be and The Compleat Beatles are available on DVD(R) via Ebay
and a few other locations.
Both titles were available back in the day on unprotected laser disc,
and that's where the "best" quality (ripped, converted and burned to
DVD-R) copies, so they say, come from. There are no plans that I could
find to officially release The Compleat Beatles on DVD, but you can
spend hours online reading about the long and winding road (sorry) that
they've gone down trying to get Let It Be officially released.
Apparently, it's Allen Klein v. Neil Aspinal, or something like that.
Okay, enough! <grin>
Thanks for your patience, gang.
Jeff T.
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