Subject: RE:Serious VHS issues by CasetheCorvetteman on 2008/1/29 8:00:07
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Just curious, have you tried several different tapes and they all don't work?
Have tried alot, only 1 worked. Quote:
Case, I've had this problem with DVD players, and I think it's common on VCRs too. They use macrovision, which is a filter used to prevent people from making clean copies. Ones I've seen just fuck with the colors and brightness during the movie.
The TV has a macrovision decoder built into it. Your projector doesn't. I had to purchase a little black box to remove the macrovision to play movies on my projector without issues. Another option may be to run the signal through a receiver, since those tend to have macrovision decoders too. Thats why I think these security deals are total bullshit, they interfere with people that are trying to watch movies legally.
If you just need the little box, look on ebay, they're like $20.
Its not that, cause DVDs work fine, its allready running through a Sherwood receiver, bypassing that makes no difference. The same tapes will work on the other projector which is the same brand, and only a few weeks ago, they worked on this one. It started this in the middle of watching a tape. Quote:
I was just going to mention copyguard or macrovision. It's such a pain in the ass. I had a copy of "Kiss of the Dragon" and the friggin thing was so dark, I thought the entire movie was filmed at night.
I saw it on TV one day and couldn't believe it was the same.
Also, do they still make anything in Japan? Over here all we get is Chinese crap, I'd love to have something Made In Japan.
Every VCR I have gets worse as they get newer. I must have had at one time about 20 VCR's. I'm down to five in use and about 3 put away. The rest are in the dump. I had a Sharp that was basically on 24/7(between taping and then watching when I got home) for about 7 years. When it broke, I paid to have it fixed because it was the best one I ever had(for features, not pic quality or anything else).
The new ones today suck, you have to rely on the remote to do just about everything.
Yes, i have 2 Panasonic VCRs made there, there are also a fair few Panasonic TVs still made there, also a couple JVCs. They are substantially more expensive than the chinese or Malaysian made models, and the quality shows.
None of these movies are copies, they are genuine bought VHS tapes. They cant all be bad, cause they work in the other machine. Quote:
I use to run 10 VCR's coping directly from my computer, never had a problem except for wearing them out. VHS sucks. I only do DVD's now
I have alot of bought movies on VHS, they are all very good movies, and so far only 1 will work.
