Page 1 of Ghosting, BBC2, Macrovision and the Matsui DVDR100. Can anyone help?

Hi all

I bought the Matsui DVDR100 yesterday (after taking back the Liteon machine I bought two weeks ago due to the jerky picture that others have suffered from). It seems to be a good little machine and is certainly a better picture quality than the previous machine and relatively easy to use. However, I have a couple of problems!

I have a de-macro cable which I bought for the Liteon but that doesn`t work very successfully with this machine. It works on videos and some DVDs but not those from Universal or 20th Century Fox, which seems a bit bizarre! Any ideas?

Also, my VCR appears to have been taken over by aliens from BBC2! I`ve been noticing some ghosting on the video channel from time to time depending on the weather over the last few months. But yesterday, when trying to record from VCR it suddenly got taken over by a full-fledged (if bad quality) BBC2! I tried disconnecting all the aerials etc, thinking that there might be a problem with signals from there, but no joy. Can a VCR act as it`s own aerial in this way? And is there a way to overcome this (and the ghosting). I did try deleting all the preset channels on my video player but this didn`t help either!

Any help greatly appreciated.


Shane Brown, Norwich

Try a quick search for Pin 19 using the tool above which should eliminate ghosting issues.



I quite like the Helpdesk people in a benevolent (as opposed to malevolent) way as they do some valuable work in preventing us being inundated by every halfwit who can work a phone.

Cheers for that. It`s looking good now. Got seemingly hundreds of leads floating round the house since I started this DVD recordings stuff! :) Also, I notice that scart plugs are notorious for getting their pins bent, broken off etc - but try and break one on purpose and you struggle for ages! ;o)


Shane Brown, Norwich

This item was edited on Friday, 1st April 2005, 18:53