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Old 10-02-2005, 02:49
mark2004
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hi does any one own a sonel macrovision free scart lead?
www.sonel.com (£19.99)

I was just wondering if any one could tell me how they work is it just like a normal scart lead where you just plug it in or is there more to it?
i am thinking of getting one because ill be buying a DVD recorder soon and i would like to put some of my original tapes on to DVD-R

Thanks for any help.
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Old 10-02-2005, 16:10
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I hate to be a wet blanket but be careful asking too many questions about macrovision removers as this breaks Digital Spy's terms and conditions...

It is fair to say that some people use these devices for legitimate reasons, such as problems encountered with some equipment that doesn't like macrovision encoded signals just playing live (not trying to copy)

But, I'd suggest either googling this question, trying the This review I found or asking at the AVForums
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Old 15-02-2005, 05:48
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does any one have any contact details for sonel.com i tried to send them an e-mail but the address does not work any more

has any one got a working e-mail address or a telephone number?
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Old 15-02-2005, 09:03
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Originally Posted by mark2004
does any one have any contact details for sonel.com i tried to send them an e-mail but the address does not work any more

has any one got a working e-mail address or a telephone number?
Hi Mark, On thinking back to when i ordered mine i had to buy the gold plated version as even then the standard one was out of stock, You could try that.

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Old 17-08-2007, 14:37
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Before you order anything from www.sonel.com try their phone number (on website) it is very rarely answered and the PayPal account Reg. No. is fake. I was sent the wrong item (took 3 weeks to arrive) and returned by Registered post. I got through once in 40 attempts over 3 days and I was told to *U** OFF ! They are going down the tubes as the law is changing... you could lose your money. PayPal's no help.
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Old 20-08-2007, 11:16
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hi does any one own a sonel macrovision free scart lead?
www.sonel.com (£19.99)

I was just wondering if any one could tell me how they work is it just like a normal scart lead where you just plug it in or is there more to it?
i am thinking of getting one because ill be buying a DVD recorder soon and i would like to put some of my original tapes on to DVD-R

Thanks for any help.
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Old 20-08-2007, 22:27
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Before you order anything from www.sonel.com try their phone number (on website) it is very rarely answered and the PayPal account Reg. No. is fake. I was sent the wrong item (took 3 weeks to arrive) and returned by Registered post. I got through once in 40 attempts over 3 days and I was told to *U** OFF ! They are going down the tubes as the law is changing... you could lose your money. PayPal's no help.
The law regarding devices that get round copy protection changed about 2 years ago so you are posting incorrect info
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Old 13-05-2013, 15:44
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It's an old thread but I ran into this problem on my Toshiba DVD recorder, I was trying to record from BBC IPlayer on the PS3 which is linked up to the DVD recorder, I was greeted by a stop message. Yet If I'd try to record the same programme off air or off the Sky+ box it would have been fine so apart from the annoyance of them imposing this, is there any point, I resorted to torrenting it which took less time than it would have to record in realtime.

Was it Macrovision and are there still options to get it removed such as that modified scart lead? So annoying that the media companies and electrical companies are in bed together and in this case to prevent licence fee payers from recording licence fee funded programming!
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Old 13-05-2013, 21:00
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It's an old thread but I ran into this problem on my Toshiba DVD recorder, I was trying to record from BBC IPlayer on the PS3 which is linked up to the DVD recorder, I was greeted by a stop message. Yet If I'd try to record the same programme off air or off the Sky+ box it would have been fine so apart from the annoyance of them imposing this, is there any point, I resorted to torrenting it which took less time than it would have to record in realtime.

Was it Macrovision and are there still options to get it removed such as that modified scart lead? So annoying that the media companies and electrical companies are in bed together and in this case to prevent licence fee payers from recording licence fee funded programming!
It may have been Macrovision, or a digital equivalent of it (M/vision is analogue).
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Old 13-05-2013, 21:03
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Yes, it's macrovision getting in the way. They don't like you recording catch-up programmes, but you can record them when first broadcast. Doesn't make sense to me. If you use your sky box you only get a limited time to watch catch-up programmes before they are automatically deleted. And they wonder why piracy flourishes!
I don't know if the leads are still available but that would be one option.
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