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Macrovision

A company that sells copy protection products. Macrovision Corp. has developed and sold copy protection products for VHS, and later a system for DVDs which prevented the copying of DVDs to VHS. Macrovision also offers copy protection solutions for software license tracking, and copy protection for computer games, as well as others. The video encoding technology found on DVDs is also called Macrovision, named after the company.



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