Comment on Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on Pokémon's “Electric Soldier Porygon”
wjs018@ani.social 1 week agoWow, that sent me down a rabbit hole of searching. I am old enough to have messed around with lost of VHS tapes in my day, but I was still too young to know what was going wrong with the picture. Reading how Macrovision screwed up the picture through desyncing the scanning explains why some of the “non-authentic” tapes I got never played right for me.
zabadoh@ani.social 1 week 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.