Dvd

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #1 12-31-2006, 06:50 PM

OK might as well give you something else to think about.....I bought my wife one of the VHS to DVD recorders..we have about 400 movies and some are getting older, I would like to put them on DVD before they go bad, but some say they are protected and won't record onto DVD? These are for our use, not for resale etc. and we paid for them! Seems to me, I should be able to do what I want with them, short of selling them! I know it can be done, the asians are ripping off movies and selling them all the time! Why is it john doe citizen is the one to get the short end all the time!

Kenny_S · #2 12-31-2006, 10:04 PM

Dave, A lot of the movies you can't record to dvd if you bought them due to they way they are protected from copying. However, and VHSs you have recorded from a VHS camera you can. We are on our second one VHS to DVD recorder because the first one still will do it but it the progression of technology they no longer have those speed of DVDs on the market. Tried many different online places and ebay, store etc, but they do have the DVD of the speed we needed so, Bought the little bride a new DVD recorder last Christmas. Probably in the near future those DVDs will ne outdated.
You can record/burn of some of those movies but I am betting they way they have the protected, you won't be able to burn all of them to DVD.
Now Our old DVD burner is hooked up to the TV and used as a DVD player. Heck of an expensive DVD player.

decoycarve · #3 01-01-2007, 08:52 AM

Computer with 2 dvd burners and rip software.
Goody

Lynn O. Doughty · #4 01-01-2007, 09:25 AM

Don't do it Dave! They don't allow knives or carving tools in the Slammer!!

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #5 01-01-2007, 09:57 AM

LOL.......................

Tom H · #6 01-01-2007, 10:16 AM

But they do allow paints........Tom H

whitecree · #7 01-01-2007, 11:24 AM

RIAA - even though they won't admit it - do acknowledge that if you OWN a valid copy of a movie or a song, you do have the right to make ONE archival copy. The trick is, to get that copy made legitmately.

Unfortunately, commercially produced copy gadgets such as you just bought, won't always do the trick. I have a Samsung digital camcorder from a couple years back that won;t even allow me to make copies of my own videos. As soon as I start copying from camcorder to vhs machine (or computer) a copyright infringement notice starts flashing across the picture.

Solution? There are a couple of ways to do it.

One way - although this produces inferior copy - is take a camcorder with your own blank tape, set it on a tripod, aim it at your tv so the screen fills the viewfinder, start your movie playing on the tv, start recording with the camcorder, then be very, very quiet while it is taping. Inelegant, clumsy, and prone to inclusions of cats (or kids) yowling or phone ringing or you swearing when you drop a knife.

The way I beat it was to buy a gadget called a hardware converter from PLEXTOR, the M402u, to be exact. I plug my video player source in one end, plug the other end into my computer by way of the USB, fire up the software that comes with it, and copy away. It does require a small bit of fiddling to get it going properly - for some reason mine came preset to record according to european standards - but is remarkably easy to use. Burns directly to DVD, or to hard drive for editing.

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #8 01-01-2007, 02:02 PM

In other words I wasted my money on this RCA combination VHS/DVD recorder! to record from VHS to DVD!

I don't have a DVD burner on my computer.

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #9 01-01-2007, 06:30 PM

OK after all kinds of trials and failures, we went to the internet and found a machine that allows the copying back and forth ....naturally it cost 99.00 so this little project keeps mounting up! But I have some sets that were more than that, so we ordered it, I will let you know what happens.....and by the way, it is legal, comes under the "Fair Use Act" . I bought them, so I can copy it for my use. VHS unfortunately have a shelf life, whereas the DVD will last probably longer than I care lol . thanks for the help everyone!

Kenny_S · #10 01-01-2007, 07:12 PM

The new Gadget you bought probably will allow some of your movies to be copied but I am betting not all.
We bought ours for a different reason.Have not had a problem with the new one. the other one was 5 years old and 10 times the price of the last one, I got her last Christmas. And what is bad, they are cheaper this year.
Best wishes.