http://www.techtat.static.famicoman.com /2011/09/21/vidicraft-guard-stabilizer/ A retro tech museum Tue, 14 Aug 2012 05:13:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 http://www.techtat.static.famicoman.com /2011/09/21/vidicraft-guard-stabilizer/#comment-44 RS Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:13:25 +0000 http://www.techtat.static.famicoman.com /?p=286#comment-44 Just a minor correction here….
The Stabilizer didn’t really disassemble the video signal and reassemble it. It just replaced the vertical sync signal with a block sync. The copyguard process back then used a screwy vertical sync signal with the intent that a non-mechanical device (such as a TV) would have no trouble with it while a mechanical device (such as a VCR) would not be able to deal with it properly.
Of course, many TVs had trouble with it, depending on how they processed vertical sync. A typical symptom of the problem was “flagging” where the top lines of the image would be bent to one side or another.

]]> http://www.techtat.static.famicoman.com /2011/09/21/vidicraft-guard-stabilizer/#comment-38 nyphonejacks Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:52:12 +0000 http://www.techtat.static.famicoman.com /?p=286#comment-38 not sure why, but i have also had success with an RF modulator between the source and recording device to strip away copy protection – with satellite programs that were copy protected, as well as copying DVDs to DVD-Rs on a set top DVD recorder

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