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Not long after the fist DVD issue with the Playstation2, which allowed users to subvert the geographical code for DVD video disks a second DVD copying 'backdoor' has been discovered in the Playstation2. This time, fans have
discovered a way to exploit the game console's analog RGB output to illegally copy DVD content to a videotape, circumventing the system's copy-protection technology.
While the analog output signals of the Playstation2 are coded with a Macrovision codec, leaving the copied output of lesser quality, anonymous sources have posted on various websites the circuitry diagram and the model name of a
converter designed to turn analog RGB signals into NTSC video signals. This converter is also capable of inadvertently removing Macrovision code.
Micomsoft (Osaka, Japan) is one company that makes such a converter - a product that has been sold for $100 on the Japanese market for years. According to Micomsoft, the device was never intended to break Macrovision copy protection. Instead, it was designed to enable fans to play arcade videogames on a home TV. Used as an attachment, it can convert analog RGB output from an arcade game
board into video signals that feed into a TV set, a Micomsoft spokesman said.
Original source is at EE Times
