Macrovision problems with direct connection to TV?

[Purpledump]

Has anyone else experienced this problem with a widescreen TV? Playing most R1 DVDs causes small static horizontal scanlines on screen and a slight flicker, looking like an interlaced picture you get with old computer screens. It's quite noticable on curved surfaces and small objects or writing, making them hard to make out. It's not the typical high low contrast symptons you usualy associate with Macrovision. I'm using a multiregion Pioneer DV444 via RGB or S-Video to a 32"Sharp widescreen TV BTW.

First I thought it was because of the NTSC conversion, but I recently noticed that the only NTSC discs that are causing this have Macrovision protection, Including my Crouching Tiger R3. Other NTSC discs, such as most of my anime and HK titles don't have macrovision and look perfect.

This is strange, as I thought only VCRs are affected. Can anyone help out? Is it possible that certain TVs can handle PAL Macrovision but not NTSC Macrovison (All my PAL discs run fine).

[Justin]

Originally posted by Purpledump
Has anyone else experienced this problem with a widescreen TV? Playing most R1 DVDs causes small static horizontal scanlines on screen and a slight flicker, looking like an interlaced picture you get with old computer screens. It's quite noticable on curved surfaces and small objects or writing, making them hard to make out. It's not the typical high low contrast symptons you usualy associate with Macrovision. I'm using a multiregion Pioneer DV444 via RGB or S-Video to a 32"Sharp widescreen TV BTW.

First I thought it was because of the NTSC conversion, but I recently noticed that the only NTSC discs that are causing this have Macrovision protection, Including my Crouching Tiger R3. Other NTSC discs, such as most of my anime and HK titles don't have macrovision and look perfect.

This is strange, as I thought only VCRs are affected. Can anyone help out? Is it possible that certain TVs can handle PAL Macrovision but not NTSC Macrovison (All my PAL discs run fine).


Nope, the problem is a badly aligned engineer mode for NTSC3.58 discs, macrovision will only make it more noticeable. Either change your Tv (try it on another brand to show the problem) or get the dealer to get a sanyo engineer out to sort the problem:)

Have you tried the DVD player set to PAL60, it might help it a little.

[toot]

i have this problem too with NTSC on a 28" sharp widescreen from my PS2 :( except i only get the funny scan-lines with s-video. and sometimes slight flickering with RGB. it's okay using composite though, just a little bit fuzzy compared to RGB/s-video if you are close.

does anyone know who to put sharp TV's into engineer or service mode? or is it better to get a pro to do it? :)

[Purpledump]

Hey Justin :). Tried PAL60 as before, but didn't help either. Just realised I haven't tried my old player to set to NTSC and play Macorvision free discs. Usually have my old player set to PAL and have no problems with composite or S-Video. I think my old player is Macrovision free, since I used to hook it up via a VCR back in the states. If I don't get scanlines with Mac free on my old player set to NTSC, then I doubt disabling MAC on my new player would help.

Yay, toot, I'm not the only one. Hope someone can help with this brand new suggestion. Maybe this "engineer mode" can solve my problem. By the way, do you notice any problems playing games or is it only with DVDs?

I've tried my friends PS2 from Japan, and I don't see problems with games. Must try his DVD playback, though.

[toot]

Originally posted by Purpledump

Yay, toot, I'm not the only one. Hope someone can help with this brand new suggestion. Maybe this "engineer mode" can solve my problem. By the way, do you notice any problems playing games or is it only with DVDs?


it's only DVD's with macrovisoin that i have trouble with.