Jeff Wisnia wrote:

The TV in out teen agers's playroom has only an RF input and the kids
have a commodity grade VCR and an entry level DVD hooked up to it.

The RF output from the VCR feeds the input of the TV, and the DVD's
video and audio outputs are connected to the corrosponding inputs on the
VCR.

All's well when playing video tapes on the VCR, but when playing a DVD
the TV image "fades" or changes contrast slowly with a cycle time of
about 20 seconds. Not badly enough to make you miss anything on the
screen, but it's noticably annoying.

I wrote it off as being some weird kind of incompatibility anomaly, and
since I don't have to watch DVDs in that room I didn't bother trying to
eliminate the problem.

Yesterday I was at a friend's home who had a similar setup, but with
different brands of equipment and his TV image faded in an out the same
as ours when he tried to show me a scene on a DVD.

That got me wondering if that fading effect is a "well known problem"
and if it is, what's the easiest way to get things working "normally".

Thanks guys,

Jeff


That's from the Macrovision copy protection. You can get a little box
that will remove it from the signal, or you can see if your DVD player
is hackable to remove it. On my Apex it was a matter of getting into a
hidden menu and turning the useless stuff off.