re 1,000 Beta format
analog video cassette recorders sold in the United States in any one
calendar year after the date of the enactment of this chapter;
(iv) 8mm format analog video cassette recorder that is not an analog
video cassette camcorder, unless such recorder conforms to the automatic
gain control copy control technology, except that this requirement shall
not apply until there are 20,000 such recorders sold in the United
States in any one calendar year after the date of the enactment of this
chapter; or
(v) analog video cassette recorder that records using an NTSC format
video input and that is not otherwise covered under clauses (i) through
(iv), unless such device conforms to the automatic gain control copy
control technology.
(B) Effective on the date of the enactment of this chapter, no person
shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise
traffic in-
(i) any VHS format analog video cassette recorder or any 8mm format
analog video cassette recorder if the design of the model of such
recorder has been modified after such date of enactment so that a model
of recorder that previously conformed to the automatic gain control copy
control technology no longer conforms to such technology; or
(ii) any VHS format analog video cassette recorder, or any 8mm format
analog video cassette recorder that is not an 8mm analog video cassette
camcorder, if the design of the model of such recorder has been modified
after such date of enactment so that a model of recorder that previously
conformed to the four-line colorstripe copy control technology no longer
conforms to such technology.
Manufacturers that have not previously manufactured or sold a VHS format
analog video cassette recorder, or an 8mm format analog cassette
recorder, shall be required to conform to the four-line colorstripe copy
control technology in the initial model of any such recorder
manufactured after the date of the enactment of this chapter, and
thereafter to continue conforming to the four-line colorstripe copy
control technology. For purposes of this subparagraph, an analog video
cassette recorder "conforms to" the four-line colorstripe copy control
technology if it records a signal that, when played back by the playback
function of that recorder in the normal viewing mode, exhibits, on a
reference display device, a display containing distracting visible lines
through portions of the viewable picture.
(2) Certain
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