• zabadoh@ani.social
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    4 days ago

    To get around Macrovision, you had to have a gadget called a genlock or time base corrector that repaired the video’s frame signal so that a VCR could record it properly.

    Genlocks and TBCs were also very helpful when dubbing unprotected anime tapes.

    They didn’t entirely solve the video signal degradation to the copy, but they did make the copies much clearer.