DVD to VHS?

[SithLord075]

I know this may be a little off the subject, but is this possible?

[Graham]

I think I read that they have tried to stop this by devious means.

G

[Mungla]

It's very possible. It's still considered legal, just as long as your the only one watching the copied version -- since you own the movie on DVD already.

There are two main ways to record a movie from DVD to VHS.
1.) Get you a television DVD player and hook it to your VHS's inputs.
2.) Get yourself an mpeg encoder card with a DVD player. I have a Creative DXR3 encoder card with svideo/composite outputs which allow me to hook my TV or VHS to it. To record a movie with a DXR3 card, I just start playing a movie like normally, then I switch the aspect (basically its the output) to standard or widescreen television. I have never tried recording a movie from DVD, I use the outputs to watch DVD's in my bedroom -- but still it'll work just fine.

[crazyray]

SOME combinations of VCR's and DVD players allow you to make your copy if you use one those "copyguard" killers" you may have seen advertised for copying tape to tape.

[Gomer]

It will not work. Copy protection causes wavy lines all over the place. What really sucks about it is that you can not even watch the dvd through your vcr. My decoder card has composite video out but my tv does not have video in. I tried to run it through the video in on my vcr in order to watch it on TV. No such luck, copy protection fouled it all up.

Does anyone know when this copy protection went into effect with the vcrs? I have a few old betas laying around. If anyone thinks it will pass through the composite video to my tv with out causing it to look like hell let me know. I could care less about copying them, I just want to watch them on this particular tv.

[Mungla]

As far as my knowledge goes, you cannot send a copyrighted signal over S-VIDEO or composite, am I wrong? I have a Mitsubishi VHS player, which works perfectly for recording DVD movies.

[otheos]

all new VCR's are Macromedia restricted. If a signal goes to the VCR with Macromedia tag (like DVD's or Digital TV) and the VCR sense the record button it'll scramble the signal.
You can hack your DVD or VCR to remove Macromedia (it's hardware) but it's illegal and difficult.

Because I feel that it is unacceptable to refrain me from backing up my DVD's and all these copyright they force on us, I do not and never will buy DVD or any form of protected media. I believe that once I buy something I own it and therefore can do (at home) whatever I want with it (for my personal use).

[Techie Dude]

Just get a decent DVD player like a Samgsung 709!!!!

Visit www.709online.com, (http://www.709online.com,) read how to hack it with you remote! Switch off all the region coding ****, and Macrovision!

Now you can record the DVD without all those lines, picture distortion and crappy sound!

See, shoulda bought a decent player in the first place! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Variable]

Also there are lots of programs if you have a DVD-Drive in your PC and TV-Out!
(DVD-Genie is one of them)
I never tried it but they should remove the copyprotection from the signal sent out to your VCR/TV/etc

[SithLord075]

Well, seems that connecting my VCR with my DVD produced that copy protected effect. Macromedia this, Safedisc that...it's a shame that pirates make it hard on consumers that shovel out hundreds every year. I too feel that you should have the right to make a back-up after spending your hard-earned money.
I've read a little bit about converting your DVD's into an Mpeg-4 using a program called FlaskMpeg. Has anyone tried this? How were the results?