ITV4

What is wrong with ITV4?

I have tried before to record ECL football, and when broadcast on this
channel, the tape recording has contrast/brilliance that bounces up and down
throughout. No trouble like this on ITV1.

I use a Philips DTT decoder of On-Digital/ITV Digital days, SCARTed to a
VCR.


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John Porcella

John Porcella wrote:
What is wrong with ITV4?

I have tried before to record ECL football, and when broadcast on this
channel, the tape recording has contrast/brilliance that bounces up and down
throughout. No trouble like this on ITV1.

I use a Philips DTT decoder of On-Digital/ITV Digital days, SCARTed to a
VCR.

Sounds like ITV 4 are enabling Macrovision encoding ?

John Porcella wrote:
What is wrong with ITV4?

I have tried before to record ECL football, and when broadcast on this
channel, the tape recording has contrast/brilliance that bounces up and down
throughout. No trouble like this on ITV1.

I use a Philips DTT decoder of On-Digital/ITV Digital days, SCARTed to a
VCR.


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MESSAGE ENDS.
John Porcella


I remember on-digital boxes were supposed to offer protection to stop
you recording pay channels (something like macro?), maybe there is a
way for broadcasters to apply it to unencripted programmes?

ercial wrote:
John Porcella wrote:
What is wrong with ITV4?

I have tried before to record ECL football, and when broadcast on this
channel, the tape recording has contrast/brilliance that bounces up and

I remember on-digital boxes were supposed to offer protection to stop
you recording pay channels (something like macro?), maybe there is a
way for broadcasters to apply it to unencripted programmes?

ISTR Sky might have requested it be added to the OnD boxes as a
condition of supply of their movie/sports channels ? I can't remember
if every make of box, if any ? got enabled ?

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John Porcella wrote:
What is wrong with ITV4?

I have tried before to record ECL football, and when broadcast on this
channel, the tape recording has contrast/brilliance that bounces up
and down
throughout. No trouble like this on ITV1.

I use a Philips DTT decoder of On-Digital/ITV Digital days, SCARTed to a
VCR.

Sounds like ITV 4 are enabling Macrovision encoding ?

That was my first thought, but I wanted someone else to suggest that.
Now that you have :-) , I've just had a google to the wikipedia site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrovision

and this confirms your diagnosis.

Using a PC with a DVB-T adapter might totally defeat this
'Protection', but since ITV don't offer quality programming let alone a
decent bit rate (picture quality), I'm unlikely to test this hypothesis.
Others can have a go, if they so wish (or can be arsed to do so -rising
to a challenge? :-).

Anyone interested enough in defeating ITV4's 'protection' will find
that wikipedia page a very helpful resource.

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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:20:19 +0100, "John Porcella"
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What is wrong with ITV4?

The first three letters would give you a bit of a clue...

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Mark Carver wrote:
ercial wrote:

John Porcella wrote:

What is wrong with ITV4?

I have tried before to record ECL football, and when broadcast on this
channel, the tape recording has contrast/brilliance that bounces up and

I remember on-digital boxes were supposed to offer protection to stop
you recording pay channels (something like macro?), maybe there is a
way for broadcasters to apply it to unencripted programmes?


ISTR Sky might have requested it be added to the OnD boxes as a
condition of supply of their movie/sports channels ? I can't remember
if every make of box, if any ? got enabled ?


My old Thomson DTI1000 had the feature enabled (on all
channels) when I first bought it, though it had evidently
been turned on by mistake.

Thomson corrected the problem with a later update. This
solution won't be available for On-D boxes. Time for a change?