Sony Playstation 2 DVD to Video hack
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Not long after the fist DVD issue with the Playstation2, which allowed users to subvert the geographical code for DVD video disks a second DVD copying 'backdoor' has been discovered in the Playstation2. This time, fans have
discovered a way to exploit the game console's analog RGB output to illegally copy DVD content to a videotape, circumventing the system's copy-protection technology.
While the analog output signals of the Playstation2 are coded with a Macrovision codec, leaving the copied output of lesser quality, anonymous sources have posted on various websites the circuitry diagram and the model name of a
converter designed to turn analog RGB signals into NTSC video signals. This converter is also capable of inadvertently removing Macrovision code.
Micomsoft (Osaka, Japan) is one company that makes such a converter - a product that has been sold for $100 on the Japanese market for years. According to Micomsoft, the device was never intended to break Macrovision copy protection. Instead, it was designed to enable fans to play arcade videogames on a home TV. Used as an attachment, it can convert analog RGB output from an arcade game
board into video signals that feed into a TV set, a Micomsoft spokesman said.
Original source is at EE Times
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Not long after the fist DVD issue with the Playstation2, which allowed users to subvert the geographical code for DVD video disks a second DVD copying 'backdoor' has been discovered in the Playstation2. This time, fans have
discovered a way to exploit the game console's analog RGB output to illegally copy DVD content to a videotape, circumventing the system's copy-protection technology.
While the analog output signals of the Playstation2 are coded with a Macrovision codec, leaving the copied output of lesser quality, anonymous sources have posted on various websites the circuitry diagram and the model name of a
converter designed to turn analog RGB signals into NTSC video signals. This converter is also capable of inadvertently removing Macrovision code.
Micomsoft (Osaka, Japan) is one company that makes such a converter - a product that has been sold for $100 on the Japanese market for years. According to Micomsoft, the device was never intended to break Macrovision copy protection. Instead, it was designed to enable fans to play arcade videogames on a home TV. Used as an attachment, it can convert analog RGB output from an arcade game
board into video signals that feed into a TV set, a Micomsoft spokesman said.
Original source is at EE Times
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Posted by Unknown on Monday 27 March 2000 14:30
Sounds interesting but who is gonna make vhs copies of dvd movies? and who wants to buy that? Sounds like back to the future to me.
Posted by Unknown on Monday 27 March 2000 18:33
oh the possibilites of hacking this system. they wanted to rush it because they were scared of losing market share to sega. now they will loose even more than that. hack them and their empty promises.!!
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday 28 March 2000 15:31
Geez, everyone wants to rag the Playstation 2. Long before you could hook this device up to the Playstation 2 you could hook this device up to any computer with DVD playback to achieve the same result! And there are MANY DVD players out there that allow you to change regions with a simple remote combination.
Posted by Unknown on Tuesday 28 March 2000 17:25
u can make copies from dvd to vhs easily by using a device called Video stabilizer, about $30, can find it in future shop..
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