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RE: Am I Being Short Changed with Alien Disc ??

I’m grateful for your responses, I hadn’t thought about frame rates affecting the run time! Although I understand that PAL uses 25 frames/sec compared to NTSC which uses 30 frame/sec rates (I hope my figures are correct), I would assume that if both versions of the film are composed of the same number of frames then the NTSC version would finish sooner due to its faster frame rate.

A further point to remember is that Region 2 does not necessarily mean PAL! Japan uses Region 2 but its television standard is NTSC and the DVD sleeve still states 112mins.

Also bear in mind that the VHS tape is 116mins (and 28sec) in length – confirmed! So again why is the DVD (region 2) version shorter than even the VHS release?

Perhaps I should have purchased the region 1 version?

........ Clearly I’ve made a mistake here the sleeve definitely states Region 2 with PAL written underneath. ;)

This item was edited on Friday, 20th April 2001, 08:50

Am I Being Short Changed with Alien Disc ??

Have just purchased a copy of Alien (Region 2), all the web sites (that I`ve checked) advertise Alien with a duration of 116 mins but the sleeve indicates 112mins. If this is correct then the region 2 version is some 5 mins shorter than the region 1 version! Does anybody know what’s missing?

Also, the sleeve to the VHS tape recording of Alien states 116mins – Are we being short changed with the region 2 DVD disc???

RE: What player do you have, so I can work out the which players have sold the most.

Pioneer 535 - My first DVD, seems O.K.!

RE: MACROVISION TOTAL SOLUTION ............ (wanted)

I’m grateful for your recommendation David,

I now have the dilemma of which service to use, DVDchips or Upgradeheaven for the mod since I have no intention of desoldering and then resoldering a 44 pin IC into the 535.

However is the mod from both parties identical or is there some advantage of going a particular route? Of course I have no wish to lose any functionality and understand that some mods inhibit the RGB output, can any body throw any light on this issue??

Ian

RE: MACROVISION TOTAL SOLUTION ............ (wanted)

Thanks for the response Steve but if I take this direction my warrantee will be void and that is quit a risk to take. Also having now looked at the dvdchips web site there are two types of mod, one is DIY the other, in-house requires no soldering ... do you know how that works.

Thanks
BigIan

MACROVISION TOTAL SOLUTION ............ (wanted)

Hi,

I have recently purchased a Pioneer 535 from RS (multi region) but has a problem with Macrovision on both composite and S-vidio. What I need is a macro disable patch – does anybody have a solution to this problem?

Alternatively I could purchase an external macrovision decoder (what ever) but in this regard I again need advise from anybody that has experience of these external box’s. And where to purchase them from (by experience! Not I know a guy who bought one from xxx). -- Will a timebase corrector solve the problem??

Another solution could be to build a decoder, there are a number of sites on the web that provide solutions, circuits etc but again advise is required, a number of circuit are hardware only and some are a combination of sw + hw, which is the best way to go??.

So, you knowledgeable people, please help!

Regards
BigIan

Pioneer 535 Macrovision - Heap Big Problem!!

Hopefully somebody can help with my problem! I have recently purchased a Pioneer 535 (multiregion), from RS, but unfortunately when daisy chained through a VCR, using composite video the TV picture pulsates light and dark - I understand this to be caused by microvision but as mentioned the player is a multiregion one and is supposed to come with macrovision disabled. This is the second player (535) that I have had with the same problem! Am I doing something wrong? Can anybody help?

Note : With Region 2 selected the firmware is showing as; ver:1.054(4)/AV1:7.00

RS have sent me an Eclipse which looked very good, Macro defeated/deleted, but it only worked for a couple of minutes before stopping and refusing to eject the disc or even acknowledge that there is a disc in there!