Why do they cripple a good card?

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Helen Boyd

Or, to put it another way, why would a tire company sell tires with a nail
already stuck in the tread?

My new AIW 9000 does a great capture job straight off the satellite. So I
started to convert some of my older VCR tapes to DVD and the capture was
horrible. Kept looking for a bad cable.

I finally discovered that the card (drivers) had decided that I was trying
to copy a protected tape (not true) and was trashing the capture. Once I
inserted a resyncer between the units, the capture cleared up.

Why do they put the Macrovision detection in their products? All they are
doing is paying the MV people for a product that makes ATI's stuff look
bad. Is it a law? If so, why? Macrovision can be killed with two
paperclips and a metal gum wrapper, almost. Just a pain in the a** for a
normal user that cannot possibly protect any tape or DVD from anyone.

HB
 
Or, to put it another way, why would a tire company sell tires with a
nail already stuck in the tread?
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Yeah. It is so trivial as to be worthless for protection but can cause
problems for innocent people. I can't count the number of times that I
have seen large screen TVs blamed for lousy pictures and blue lines when
the culprit is that damned macrotrash.

I use an old, believe it or not, Beta VCR between my TV and the gear.
Years ago I discovered that it would pass on the signal but not the MV
signal crap. Of course you can buy a MV blocker brand new for less than a
hundred bucks. Or any of the professional gear will dump it (but for a
lot more bucks)

Bill D
 
Or, to put it another way, why would a tire company sell tires with a nail
already stuck in the tread?

My new AIW 9000 does a great capture job straight off the satellite. So I
started to convert some of my older VCR tapes to DVD and the capture was
horrible. Kept looking for a bad cable.

I finally discovered that the card (drivers) had decided that I was trying
to copy a protected tape (not true) and was trashing the capture. Once I
inserted a resyncer between the units, the capture cleared up.

Why do they put the Macrovision detection in their products? All they are
doing is paying the MV people for a product that makes ATI's stuff look
bad. Is it a law? If so, why? Macrovision can be killed with two
paperclips and a metal gum wrapper, almost. Just a pain in the a** for a
normal user that cannot possibly protect any tape or DVD from anyone.
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It's the ****ing MPAA - along with RIAA... they do this shit. Hows
this one... The SB Audigy supports DVD-AUDIO Discs... right?

You can listen to these disc with your $50~300 speakers...
BUT... the DIGITAL OUTPUT jacks on the sound-card are DISABLED to
prevent you from pirating them!!

WTF! What if you want to OUTPUT the audio signal to YOUR STERO AMP?!

Perpahs you dont want to hear music on dinky PC speakers!?!
 
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