Thank you to everyone for their replies!
Sorry for the delay, I've been occupied with other things recently.
Just as an update, I've ordered a TBC which should hopefully do the trick, but I will report back once I have received and tested it.
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Originally Posted by latreche34
Potential risk of piracy is very low for such a content, You do need some sort of stabilization though to overcome the problem, A VCR with TBC or a passthrough device, Your capture card alone is not going to handle the high jitter sources from low end VCRs and camcorders.
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Originally Posted by lordsmurf
Having experience in that industry, I can confirm even small-run tapes can have anti-copy. Maybe not the costly Macrovision, but some of the other injection methods.
False detections are also possible (even likely), due to malformed tape signal. Regardless, tape signal purification required, meaning TBCs.
However, you are correct: we need to see if a quality VCR (with line TBC) is also in use. The frame TBC can only do so much. VHS capturing needs a proper line+frame TBC pairing, not just one or the other.
So @GameMan370, what VCR are you trying to use for this?  |
My VCR is a JVC HR-VP658U.
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Originally Posted by bakerie
Back in the day (we're talking over 25 years ago) I was looking into Macrovision removal, and I seem to recall basic devices that just add a black border around the edges of the frame, which was enough to "defeat" it.
Again, this is so long ago, I'm reaching into parts of my brain that are corrupted from time, so I'm not sure how "off the shelf" something like that was in 2000, but I seem to recall it being a thing?
Someone who was more involved and older in 2000 want to chime in and tell me if this is nonsense?
As for OP, I haven't had any tapes kick in macro vision protection on the capture card I used a few years back to digitise a ton of tapes, however they where mostly home made stuff, so I may have just got lucky.
Before you go spending a fortune on stabilisers or whatever, have you tried just using another capture device? You haven't even listed the one you're using, it's fairly possible the tapes are just poor and the capture device shite.
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My video capture device is a Ucec video converter.
The tapes themselves seem to be recorded in a good quality. At least compared to come of the VHS tapes, i've used over the years, I don't see any real degradation to them.
If the TBC doesn't fix the problem, I will look into getting a different converter.
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Originally Posted by vwestlife
Do you know the year the tapes are from? MacroVision was generally not used, even on major Hollywood movies, until the late 1980s, when Go Video released their dual-deck VCR and the entire motion picture and TV industry freaked out about it.
And "video stabilizers" are effective at stripping off enough of MacroVision and other copy protection schemes to allow a VCR to make a copy of a tape without objectionable degradation. But to get a good capture of the tape, you will still need a TBC:
Mystery video stabilizer teardown & test |
Wow! It's an honour to have you reply to my question! I watch your videos on Youtube.
My tapes would be from mid to late 1990s.
