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Thread ID: 124291	2012-04-17 03:29:00	Record mySky without Macrovision	Webbnzl (8810)	Press F1

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1270513	2012-04-17 03:29:00	So My wife was on TV the other day (Breakfast on TV1) and I recorded the program onto our mySky. Now I want to transfer that recording onto a DVD or even my PC so I can get it off the mySky as it is taking up a lot of valuable space. I borrowed my brother inlaws Sony DVD recorder to Dub it, but the Sony won't allow it, as the mySky is copy protected. I'm just using the composite cables so it must be Macrovision protection thats stopping it. Any ideas how I can get this 5 mins of free to air TV onto a DVD? Cheers	Webbnzl (8810)
1270514	2012-04-17 03:41:00	Buy a tv tuner then install it	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1270515	2012-04-17 03:44:00	Buy a tv tuner then install it Good plan but none of them say if the Macrovision is an issue or not. Don't want to spend money to find that I've still got the same problem!	Webbnzl (8810)
1270516	2012-04-17 03:55:00	Well I can record off any tv channel with a freeview tuner its fine. So you wont have the same prob	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1270517	2012-04-17 03:58:00	Theoretically TV tuners and in fact all capture devices should incorporate macrovision protection or else they are breaking copyright laws. In practice my old winfast2000 I used to copy my old VHS tapes to DVD seemed oblivious to macrovision. I wouldn't count on it though. There used to be various video enhancers available from places like dick smith or Jaycar that apparently remove macrovision from the signal, but I've never tried one to confirm this. Bottom line is if it's broadcast with copy protection you are not supposed to remove it and copy to DVD, free to air does not mean free to copy and keep. If it's available on TVNZ on demand there is software around that will capture a stream as it's played. Again not something I've tried.	dugimodo (138)
1270518	2012-04-17 04:02:00	Theoretically TV tuners and in fact all capture devices should incorporate macrovision protection or else they are breaking copyright laws. In practice my old winfast2000 I used to copy my old VHS tapes to DVD seemed oblivious to macrovision. I wouldn't count on it though. There used to be various video enhancers available from places like dick smith or Jaycar that apparently remove macrovision from the signal, but I've never tried one to confirm this. Bottom line is if it's broadcast with copy protection you are not supposed to remove it and copy to DVD, free to air does not mean free to copy and keep. If it's available on TVNZ on demand there is software around that will capture a stream as it's played. Again not something I've tried. I think you used to be able to do that with the old software based analogue decoders (the really cheap tuner cards). The hardware encoding ones it was a bit harder....and now most of these are digitial (DVB-S or T) so the analogue ones (with aerial or composite connectors) are pretty hard to find. I believe the Hauppauge HVR2200 is a dual DVB-T and Dual Analog tuner.	psycik (12851)
1270519	2012-04-17 04:11:00	I thought macrovision had something to do with (if you were trying to get a pic (from a computer), if you were connecting to more than 1 monitor / or a tv? Thats the only thing, I can think of where macrovision would stop you from doing this. Or maybe the old VCR's	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1270520	2012-04-17 04:28:00	Macrovision is a copy protection signal added into the video stream. When connecting between devices such as a player and a recorder or capture device if macrovision is present they should block the picture on the input, or in the case of older VCRs that predate macrovision they usually ended up recording something that had messed up audio and pulsed bright and dark in a regular pattern making it basically unwatchable. To get around it you'd need a capture device that has a good automatic gain control to level out the signal and which ignores macrovision. I think it was specifically designed to mess up the inputs of VCRs when they were common. Some PC capture devices built into TV tuners seem to work . TV's themselves don't have a problem with macrovision no matter how many you connect, but pass the signal through a recording device and it's a different story. My previous TV tuner from memory put a grey box over 90% of the picture if it detected macrovision on the input.	dugimodo (138)
1270521	2012-04-17 05:45:00	take out the mysky HDD? and plug it into your pc. Probably wont work but its an idea. Also do you have problems with the mysky decoder getting really hot, I put a small case fan in mine to keep the air flowing inside it.	Slankydudl (16687)
1270522	2012-04-17 06:38:00	Not all shows broadcast will have the macrovision turned on as my dad can record some stuff off the sky box onto his HDD/DVD recorder but not others. It sometimes comes up with the screen saying that the program is copy protected. You can't just view on TVNZOndemand?	CYaBro (73)
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