My husband gave me one for my birthday. At first i dubbed all my old School stuff and for the most pasrt it went well. When I started trying newer stuff a warning would pop up that I couldnt make copies with thiss format. Has anyone else had a smiliar thing happen? Is there anyway around it or are there just some VHS tapes I flat out CANT make copies of???
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
mama...the newer VHS tapes typically have a copyright protection, which does unfortunately mean that you cannot dub them...unless some of our high tech friends on here know a way around it. The older VHS movies didn't have this, so they are easily copied. I'm not sure of the year that they started the copywrite protection...but i'd guess somewhere around 85'.
Posted by johnny76 (Member # 8174) on :
Oh how familiar those "Protected by Macrovision" warnings are to me. I have not found a way around it.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Is this for real that we still have to deal with the old copy protection?
I have the machine with my bro, but we´ve not copied that much so far.
I can´t believe this!!??
Posted by johnny76 (Member # 8174) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Is this for real that we still have to deal with the old copy protection?
I have the machine with my bro, but we´ve not copied that much so far.
I can´t believe this!!??
Problem is, if ya got a tape from the 80's or 90's that your tryin to dub, and it had the copy protection or macrovision built into the tape, its still gonna have it now since it was manually installed in the tape itself.
Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on :
Disney have it a lot. What you need is a Macrovision remover. I got one off ebay a while back. I did some test recordings and it seems to work ok.
Note: They might not work for an all-in-one player, since you need to plug the player into the Macrovision remover and then plug that into the DVD-R.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
Johnny is right....I was able to convert 90% of my VHS tapes to dvd, but there are some tapes that can't be done because of the old Macrovision they used....even alot of tapes from the early 80's had it.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Guess i´m just disappointed that they won´t/can´t make a player that ignores that stupid old protection.
Is that even possible, i´m not that "high tech" to know.
I remember that disney and one or two other companies used copy protection here so i´m not that worried after all.
Posted by jdocster McFly you Irish bug (Member # 5752) on :
You can by a descrambler pretty cheap on the internet... I used them all of the time...
[ 01. October 2009, 14:52: Message edited by: jdocster McFly you Irish bug ]
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
Well, Im not TOO worried about it. If I tryed to dub 100 tapes only somewhere between 10 or 15 DIDNT dub. Stuff like the STAR WARS movies I suspected WOULDNT dub but I was totally shocked when I popped LITTLE DARLINGS in there and it wouldnt dub! (and yes, I have the one with the "red box" that everyone wants with that John Lennon song on the soundtrack. Had I been able to dub myself a copy on DVD I could have sold the VHS for at least 30 bucks!)
The oddest thing is I went to tape stuff from a VHS I had taped off TV (VH1'S I LOVE THE 80s) and THAT wouldnt work! Now I KNOW I didnt do anything to THOSE tapes to "protect" them . hahaha
Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:LITTLE DARLINGS in there and it wouldnt dub! (and yes, I have the one with the "red box" that everyone wants with that John Lennon song on the soundtrack.
Is that the slip-box cover?
quote:The oddest thing is I went to tape stuff from a VHS I had taped off TV (VH1'S I LOVE THE 80s) and THAT wouldnt work! Now I KNOW I didnt do anything to THOSE tapes to "protect" them . hahaha
Did you tape the TV stuff on an old tape that had originally been a proper movie?
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
A. yes, slip cover box
and
B. No. Regular VHS tapes you buy at like RADIO SHACK!
Posted by logan5 (Member # 1467) on :
Ah! Re-reading your post you say it was a VH-1 show. From what I gather, VH-1 stuff is pretty hard to come by (on torrents, etc), so I would assume that they broadcast some kind of copy protect that stops people from recording their shows. Otherwise, there would be a lot more available on share sites.
