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to: Don Hills
from: Geo
date: 2005-02-07 06:23:54
subject: Re: MS and Macrovision join forces

From: "Geo" 

Interesting, once his VCR has to use an HD/SD converter because all
television is HD, he's going to have the same problem with the VCR.

Geo.

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
news:x0wBCtgaXecO092yn{at}attglobal.net...
> In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
> >"An Internet-delivered movie, downloaded to a PC, can now be
protected on
> >analog video playback out of a PC," the two companies claimed.
>
> Related, use Google Groups to check out the thread entitled
"Copy-protected
> analog TV broadcasts" in the newsgroup nz.tech.
>
> (Person bought a HDD/DVD recorder, it refused to record one specific music
> video from a programme. His VCR recorded it OK but the HDD recorder
refused
> to record the video played back from the VCR, saying it was copy
protected.
> Probably Macrovision II.)
>
> --
> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
> It's ironic that people who are too smart to engage in politics
> are governed by people who are not as smart.

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