Canopus ADVC-100 giving weird colors?

[mbassiouny]

Hi,

I came across a Canopus advc-100 device that has some color issues. At first it only happened occasionally and restarting the device several times would fix it, but now it happens very frequently.

I have attached a short sample while the colors are changing, once the colors go bad, they remain like this for a while and just occasionally come back to normal for few seconds.

Tried with several different S-VHS VCRs, issue still happens. Also it's worth noting the issue only happens if the tape is a VHS tape. if it an S-VHS tape, the issue goes away.

Any ideas on what might be causing the issue?

Thanks in advance for any help

[mbassiouny]

Just for for future readers, I asked the same question here somewhere else and got an answer.

The problem in my case was because the VHS tape I tried had macrovision. The trick to make advc-100 bypass copy-protection is explained here:
https://forums.afterdawn.com/threads...dvc100.290888/