can anyone explain this?

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today i put in a dvd to play for my father i connected it through my vcr to the tv and it goes very bright then really dark in a matter of seconds through the whole dvd. anyone got any ideas?

is this to do with the laser or the vcr or disk?
 
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today i put in a dvd to play for my father i connected it through my vcr to the tv and it goes very bright then really dark in a matter of seconds through the whole dvd. anyone got any ideas?

is this to do with the laser or the vcr or disk?
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What you've just experienced is known as Macrovision. A way of treating the video signal so it spoils the signal when passing it through a VCR which effectively prohibits you from transferring your DVD directly to tape..

Some PS2 chips will have the ability to remove Macrovision from the output...
 
i dont think so because it only does it on dvds as i played a game with it and it didnt do any thing wrong but then i put the dvd it started doing it again.just a way to stop copying to video but i needed to conect it to the vcr because i wanted surround sound as the vcr is conected to the amp.
 
You can't hook up a DVD player through a VCR, period. And the PS2 with a DVD movie in it is a DVD player (which is why it does it "only when you watch DVDs", since games have no Macrovision protection on the outgoing signal). The only way to watch movies on any system (PS2, DVD player, whatever) is to hook it directly to the TV/Reciever, it can't run through anything that even has the remote possibility of recording the incoming signal, regardless of your intentions.

There is no workaround.

My suggestion would be to buy a switchbox for your reciever, since I'm guessing it has only a single input. Connect both the VCR and PS2 to this switchbox, with the switchbox's outputs going to the TV/reciever. Then just switch back and forth depending on which one you want to use at a given time. I have my GameCube and VCR running through a switchbox (ran out of connections on the back of the reciever, so they share one). But I have nothing running into the VCR.

What kind of reciever do you have? Any reciever capable of supporting 5.1 audio (since you mentioned surround) should have more than one input on it... Can't you just run the PS2 into one input and the VCR into another?
 
Actually modchips do very little in terms of damaging your PS2, that is, unless it was a crappy install job or you used fake clone chips instead of the originals.

I have an early Japanese PS2 with one of the first modchips, and a V7 US PS2 with one of the more recent chips. Both still run perfectly fine :)
 
Don't connect the PS2 via a VCR and it will go away. I had the same problem once. It's the Macrovision thing as said before. At one point in time, Radio Shack sold converted boxes that would shut Macrovision off. I doubt they have them still, but it's worth a phone call.
 
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Don't connect the PS2 via a VCR and it will go away. I had the same problem once. It's the Macrovision thing as said before. At one point in time, Radio Shack sold converted boxes that would shut Macrovision off. I doubt they have them still, but it's worth a phone call.
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The "Macrovision remover" box is actually a very very stupid little box in terms of electronics. It's nothing but a small circuit that'll limit the peak values of the video signal. Very simple and works like a charm.. Somewhere I have an old Bang & Olufsen VCR stuffed away which had a similar circuit built in - The ones that got released for sale had that same circuit removed...
 

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