"Jim Nugent" wrote in message
...

My DVD player is as cheap as they come (or came --- at the time --- $40)
and
most likely does not include firmware to disable Macrovision, even
undocumented.

You'd be surprised. The cheap ones very often can be easily hacked via the
remote controls, though more commonly to make them multi region. It's the
more expensive brand-name ones which have a habit of needing to be
'chipped'.

Dave