James Sweet wrote:


: 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.

Agreed. You need to do a google search for "image stabilizer" and put
one of them in the video line between the DVD player and the VCR.
http://www.checkhere22.com/stabilizer.html is one such device.

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