You'd be surprised at the quality that a D-VHS deck produces. Compared to transferring my vinyl LPs, this was a piece of cake. But a simple transfer? Just a matter of popping a tape and disk into the respective machines, making sure everything is running properly, and come back two hours later. Not unless one is going to do a re-edit or play other fun and games. Otherwise, I'm just spending too much time on it versus the money.įor what it's worth, simply transferring tapes to DVD is not a lot of work. If I can do this for under $100 without a big investment of fiddling on my part, it's worth doing. There are various and sundry ways to hack around the anti-copy stuff, but they all involve more babysitting and more work than I'm interested in. Similarly, I'm not willing to invest a lot of effort. So I'm not willing to invest a lot of money in this. While it would only cost me about $300 to replace the tapes with DVDs (I've looked into it), I really don't know how many of those I will watch again. If you do make the copies I bet you never get around to watching any of them. #BYPASS COPY PROTECTED DVDS TO MAKE MY COLLECTION DIGITAL MOVIE#Personally I find the time required to copy the movie and make the DVD just isn't worthwhile when a much better-quality version is available for purchase for just a few dollars. They have been sticklers about not enabling copying or owner-protected media in the past. So I don't know if the Roxio unit is sensitive to Macrovision or not. The thing is, who cares any more if someone copies for themselves a commercial VHS tape? The quality is far less than a replacement store-bought DVD and the prices of those DVDs for old movies is darn cheap (especially used). So the manufacturers of DVD recorders include a circuit that will recognize if a Macrovision signal is present and prevent the copying. I may be wrong in my legal interpretation but my understanding is it is lawful to make a copy for yourself of a copy-protected video you own, but it is unlawful to defeat a copy protection scheme to do that. I know about lots of different things, but as you can tell video copy protection schemes isn't one of them (ignorant smile). I'm supposing it's buried in the interframe signal. ![]() ![]() But there's something in it that tells the DVD recorder not to allow record mode. Thanks! Is that what the anti-copy scheme is called?įWIW, the video output looks and plays just fine, no visible evidence that there's anything hinky in the signal.
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