Patent ID: 8644680

Claim:
A method of providing a content control indication in a video signal output by a digital media player, comprising the acts of: providing a digital video signal from a video storage medium; providing a command; modifying the video signal in response to the command to include a weakened color stripe signal in selected scan lines of the video signal, the weakened color stripe signal having an incorrect color burst in a horizontal blanking interval of the selected scan lines, wherein the incorrect color burst includes more subcarrier cycles of correct phase angle than non-attenuated subcarrier cycles of incorrect phase angle, and is detectable by a color stripe process detector but inadequate to provide color copy protection effects in a video tape recording of the modified video signal, wherein the weakened color stripe signal is an indication of content control to inhibit recording of the modified video signal by a compliant recording apparatus; converting the modified video signal in a digital to analog converter to an analog video signal; and outputting the analog video signal.