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Another good example of a company pandering to the industry that is taking away our freedom is the DVR market. The C[[aptive Works CW-100R]] would otherwise be a nice, low cost consumer DVR except, although there is no actual use for an AGC circuit, purposely has means to detect Macrovision and block your ability to record the video source.Another good example of a company pandering to the industry that is taking away our freedom is the DVR market. The [[Captive Works CW-100R]] would otherwise be a nice, low cost consumer DVR except, although there is no actual use for an AGC circuit, purposely has means to detect Macrovision and block your ability to record the video source. TiVo is a big offender in placating an industry set out to restrict our freedom. TiVo DVR, also recognize and support Macrovision’s copy protection schemes. The copy protection schemes are deployed by the content/program providers and are limited to specific programs like Pay-per-View, Video on demand or DVD/VHS sources. TiVo responds to the Macrovision’s following Copy protection rules that dictate how long the video may be saved on the TiVo drive, or outright refusing to record the program.== VHS & DVD Protection ==The protection is achieved by implanting physical synchronization vertical signals directly onto VHS tapes. But in case the signal is not physically stored on DVDs rather DVDs are associated with instructions that tell DVD players to create and impose such signals and cause hindrance in recording. These DVD players contain a special chip licensed by Macrovision. In some jurisdictions inclusion of the chip is required by the government, a sign of the success of Sony, Time Warner, and the MPAA in using the government as a tool.== Protection against Macrovision ==Since DVDs are not encoded physically by the signals so it is quite easy to get rid of macrovision scheme by just configuring the DVD player to not to bother about the instructions associated with macrovision. Moreover for video or VHS there are devices available as video stabilizers or enhancers that disables the macrovision spikes by detecting the encoded signals (vertical synchronization signals) and leveling them back to the original level. In February 2005 Macrovision introduced a new protection technology named as Rip-Guard and claimed that 97% of DVD rippers will fail to disable this technology.