Nvidia Macrovision DVD-TV rules forced on consumers

It appears that I will be using older nVidia Detonator drivers for my GeForce card until my next video card purchase of an ATI Radeon. As far as I know, ATI drivers do not force Macrovision on consumers or otherwise fail to work with Conextant bt878 encoders.

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It appears that I will be using older nVidia Detonator drivers for my GeForce card until my next video card purchase of an ATI Radeon.
As far as I know, ATI drivers do not force Macrovision on consumers or otherwise fail to work with Conextant bt878 encoders.
I always buy computer equipment with Conextant bt878 or bt879 encoders for television input or output because of their widespread driver and software support (other than nVidia).

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ATI all in wonder outputs macrovision.
 
I cant speak for the bt8x8 chipset.

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never mind my lat post, I did not read fully the thread.
 
This is pretty sad when DVD's won't play if a BT8x8 input device is installed, especially because it;s not like the capture dervice can capture the DVD on screen from the overlay.............
 
 
Doen't seem to make sense.
 
Macrovision should be illegal.