Kind of a joke few would get. For a period of time in the late 80’s into the early 90’s it was very hard to get a german made VCR. Odering them straight from there wasn’t really a option. You could only get them at high cost unless you knew someone in the military over there. They would go to the local PX, buy one and ship it home. It was good way to make really good quality copies.

Was one of them ordered from germany so it didn’t have the macrovision circuit in it?

Not even that.

They certainly don’t practice what is in there.

I was only a few years from the end of those at the local university.

Better shrubs than them have tried and failed. Same as with the ATC system.

There is some serious crapitalist hate for organic maps. I never heard of it util is was taken off the play store for a bit. I side loaded it that day.