I haven't found either CSS or Macrovision copy protection to be a problem capturing frames from DVDs while they play in my computer drive. Just turn off the video accelerator in a typical software such as PowerDVD (which bypasses the graphics card) and grab away. The result is hardly the quality of a full-tone 35mm movie still from MOMA, but Photoshop will blow it up without a lot of annoying distortion. I find that the frame grabs look pretty good on a book page. Given the amount of information on the DVD, I believe--though I cannot prove--that the quality of these grabs could be higher. Perhaps in some software they are. I'm far too little the tech-head to know what governs that resolution, however. N -- Associate Professor of Humanities and Women's Studies Center for Interdisciplinary Studies 341 Lane Hall 0227 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-8174 fax (540) 231-7013 http://filebox.vt.edu/users/nmking/ ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]