Re: DVD / VHS Combos

"Biz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "~~Alan~~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > I am very aware of the copyright laws and that is what I believe and
teach
> > my child.  (I have authored a lot of software and although I do not make
> as
> > much as say the recording industry, I do share their feelings.)  My
> > intention is to rent a DVD from the neighborhood store, watch it that
> night
> > or Copy it to tape to watch at my own leisure.  Then use the tape over
> > again.  I'm not into movies that much that I have to watch them over and
> > over and over.....  If I really like a movie, then I'll buy it.  If I
want
> > to own it forever, I might as well have a decent copy to own.
> >
> > Can I take the DVD and through A/V outputs, plug into a separate VCR and
> > copy it that way?
>
> No.  Macrovision will not allow this, unless you have equipment to bypass
or
> ignore the macrovsion signal between the VCRs.

If you have a camcorder that has a firewire output and a video recorder that
has a firewire input (many DVD recorders have this), you can sometimes copy
protected videos. The signal has to be taken from the video player to the
camcorder's AV or SVHS inputs and taken out through the camcorder's firewire
connection to the video recorder. Not sure why it only works some of the
time, but it is useful to know. It is not a true copy however because the
menu operation of the DVD is not duplicated. Anyone else successfully used
this technique?
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