Is anyone aware of a combo unit that will copy VHS protected tapes to DVD and DVR (cable box) to DVD ? I OWN many old tapes that I want to preserve onto DVD - and most combo recorders can't get past the VHS tape (Macrovision?) copy protection. I'm not doing anything illegal - I purchased ALL of these VHS tapes want to make a copy for myself.
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You may own the tapes, but you don't own the copyright, therefore you will be breaking the "law" in copying them.
and, more bad news ...
My Advice: Buy DVD versions for those movies in your VHS library that are now available on DVD, especially if they are films you like to watch on a regular basis. Since DVD has much better video and audio quality than VHS, as well as most DVDs having supplementary features (such as commentaries, deleted scenes, interviews, etc...), and with the price of DVD movies being fairly inexpensive (especially if they have been out for awhile), this would be a better solution in terms of time.
Keep in mind that it takes two hours to copy a two hour movie, as the recording is done in real time using a DVD recorder, whether copying from a VHS tape or DVD. For example; it would take 100 hours to copy 50 movies (if you are actually able to do so) and money (you still have to get 50 blank DVDs) spent on trying to make copies of old VHS movies onto DVD.
I now await for the inevitable spam that follows these requests, or I could just close the thread.
and, more bad news ...
My Advice: Buy DVD versions for those movies in your VHS library that are now available on DVD, especially if they are films you like to watch on a regular basis. Since DVD has much better video and audio quality than VHS, as well as most DVDs having supplementary features (such as commentaries, deleted scenes, interviews, etc...), and with the price of DVD movies being fairly inexpensive (especially if they have been out for awhile), this would be a better solution in terms of time.
Keep in mind that it takes two hours to copy a two hour movie, as the recording is done in real time using a DVD recorder, whether copying from a VHS tape or DVD. For example; it would take 100 hours to copy 50 movies (if you are actually able to do so) and money (you still have to get 50 blank DVDs) spent on trying to make copies of old VHS movies onto DVD.
I now await for the inevitable spam that follows these requests, or I could just close the thread.
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I used to repair VCR's and tried for years to overcome the various spoiler codes embedded in VHS cassette tapes but never did manage it. And nor did my dozen or so work colleagues so we gave up on it.
As far as I know there is no machine on the market that does what you require.
But I think you have to ask yourself is the task - were it possible - worth the time and effort? Most films can now be acquired very cheaply on DVD with the advent of bluray and streaming movies. In the UK a chain of shops named 'Cash Converters' exists that buys and sells second hand goods and my local branch are selling used DVD films 10 for £5.00.
As far as I know there is no machine on the market that does what you require.
But I think you have to ask yourself is the task - were it possible - worth the time and effort? Most films can now be acquired very cheaply on DVD with the advent of bluray and streaming movies. In the UK a chain of shops named 'Cash Converters' exists that buys and sells second hand goods and my local branch are selling used DVD films 10 for £5.00.
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