Carbon
Thats is a possibility. I think almost all video playing devices have MacroVision.
While i was playing around with the video capture I had quite a few movies I couldn't record from. I have an old vcr from about 1985 that still works and they recorded fine from it. You can find some MacroVision removers out there, A local electronics shop has them for $35.
I got this from the MacroVision site.
"Video Copy Protection
This business unit licenses Macrovision's copy protection technologies to major Hollywood studios, independent studios, special interest program providers, satellite broadcasters, digital set-top decoder manufacturers, DVD player manufacturers, and integrated circuit companies. These technologies allow rights owners to protect their videocassettes, DVDs, and digital pay-per-view programs against unauthorized copying to VCRs."
"How Does DVD Copy Protection Work?
Rights owners seeking to copy protect their programs would instruct their authoring facility to set certain digital-analog copy protection trigger bits to "on." When the disc is played back in a consumer's home, these trigger bits activate a Macrovision-enabled digital-analog converter chip inside the player. The chip then applies copy protection to the analog output of the DVD player. This allows for transparent viewing of the original program, but causes copies made on most VCRs to be substantially degraded"
Sorry for the long post if this is not your problem, just trying to help.
[This message has been edited by Boke (edited 10-10-2000).]