Can you help a newbie?

If I add a cheap dvd player to my (older) system by feeding the video on
scart via my vhs recorder (nicam) (on aux) through to the tv (on scart), and
take the audio from the vhs audio out into my pro-logic hi-fi ...

Will I hear a full dolby pro audio signal (my amp won't do 5.1, its an older
theatre sound system) or just flat stereo.

- I get the full pro logic audio from the vhs player if the tape is so
encoded.

I have 2 + centre + surround + sub speakers.
(Pro logic has the surround driven together)

RA in2004 wrote:

Can you help a newbie?

If I add a cheap dvd player to my (older) system by feeding the video on
scart via my vhs recorder (nicam) (on aux) through to the tv (on scart), and
take the audio from the vhs audio out into my pro-logic hi-fi ...

Will I hear a full dolby pro audio signal (my amp won't do 5.1, its an older
theatre sound system) or just flat stereo.


I did, but the picture flashed due to macrovision unless the
VCR was turned off.

--
Roger.

RA in2004 wrote:

Can you help a newbie?

If I add a cheap dvd player to my (older) system by feeding the video on
scart via my vhs recorder (nicam) (on aux) through to the tv (on scart), and
take the audio from the vhs audio out into my pro-logic hi-fi ...

Will I hear a full dolby pro audio signal (my amp won't do 5.1, its an older
theatre sound system) or just flat stereo.


I did, but the picture flashed due to macrovision unless the
VCR was turned off.

--
Roger.

I did, but the picture flashed due to macrovision unless the
VCR was turned off.
--
Roger.

I thought I'd have to turn the vcr on for the audio to be put through ???
At first thoughts I'd rather leave the vcr off.

What is macrovision (an undocumented 'feature' or something intentional) ??

I did, but the picture flashed due to macrovision unless the
VCR was turned off.
--
Roger.

I thought I'd have to turn the vcr on for the audio to be put through ???
At first thoughts I'd rather leave the vcr off.

What is macrovision (an undocumented 'feature' or something intentional) ??

RA in2004 wrote:

I did, but the picture flashed due to macrovision unless the
VCR was turned off.
--
Roger.


I thought I'd have to turn the vcr on for the audio to be put through ???
At first thoughts I'd rather leave the vcr off.

What is macrovision (an undocumented 'feature' or something intentional) ??


Copy protection on DVD video.
IIRC it's a bit on the DVD that tells the player to vary the size
of a sync pulse. TVs are not affected but VCRs have an automatic
gain control so the video gets brighter and dimmer as the pulse
voltage varies.

If I route the DVD video through the aux scart on the VCR,
it flashes when the VCR is turned on.

Some of those multiregion hacks for DVDs also disable
macrovision.


HTH

--
Roger.

RA in2004 wrote:

I did, but the picture flashed due to macrovision unless the
VCR was turned off.
--
Roger.


I thought I'd have to turn the vcr on for the audio to be put through ???
At first thoughts I'd rather leave the vcr off.

What is macrovision (an undocumented 'feature' or something intentional) ??


Copy protection on DVD video.
IIRC it's a bit on the DVD that tells the player to vary the size
of a sync pulse. TVs are not affected but VCRs have an automatic
gain control so the video gets brighter and dimmer as the pulse
voltage varies.

If I route the DVD video through the aux scart on the VCR,
it flashes when the VCR is turned on.

Some of those multiregion hacks for DVDs also disable
macrovision.


HTH

--
Roger.