On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Robert Carroll
carrollcompu...@gmail.com wrote:
I am not a lawyer but I know that every owner of an electronic recording has
a right to make an archival copy for himself or herself. This applies to
tapes as well as DVDs.
As far as I know, the Motion Picture
A friend asked if I could convert a few VHS tapes to DVD. I've done
many, so I said OK. One tape he gave me is a commercial movie--obscure,
but one of his favorites--and it's never been released as a DVD. It has
Macrovision.
Is there a legal way to do this conversion without buying expensive
If it is a commercial tape it is a nogo.
Wether or not it is old has no bearing it is still protected.
Stewart
At 12:03 PM 9/30/2009, you wrote:
A friend asked if I could convert a few VHS tapes to DVD. I've done
many, so I said OK. One tape he gave me is a commercial
movie--obscure, but
Back in the day there were lots of devices that promised to remove
Macrovision; few actually worked well (if at all). I suppose you can
always just film the screen.
But if it's an older movie it may already be available for free on the
internet. Or dirt cheap on DVD. What's the title?
On Wed,
This site came up on the recomendations on gmail-
http://www.vhs2dvdwizard.com. It runs the video through a USB dongle and
claims to deal with copy protection.
I have one thing I doubt will every be released on a legitimate DVD but I
live in hope that Mike Jitlov's Wizard of Speed and Time will
I picked up a Samsung combination VCR-DVR to transfer old VHS home videos to
DVDs. It worked, but only sorta. The transfer quality is OK, and the Samsung
can play them, but none of my PCs recognize
them--they all say Insert disk when I try to do anything. This means I can't
edit or make
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Subject: [CGUYS] VHS to DVD question
I picked up a Samsung combination VCR-DVR to transfer old VHS home videos to
DVDs. It worked, but only sorta. The transfer quality is OK, and the Samsung
can play them, but none of my PCs recognize
them--they all say Insert disk when I try to do
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Subject: [CGUYS] VHS to DVD question
I picked up a Samsung combination VCR-DVR to transfer old VHS home videos to
DVDs
The only answer I've ever been given is that since the DVD's aren't
commercially produced, programs like RealPlayer Windows Media Player won't
recognize them on PC's
Well, as I said I don't know a lot about video, but I do know enough to be able
to tell you that you've been led astray there.
I have a Panasonic VCR-DVD unit and my Mac mini Superdrive can read the DVD-R
recordings it produces.
Make sure you finalize the DVD-R's. In the case of the Panasonic, it can
play material recorded on non-finalized DVD-R's, but the DVD-R's won't play in
Mac mini (it doesn't read them at all)
You said yes, the PC drives do support DVD-R). Would a different format
make a difference? Or what?. If the reading drive only reads, such as a
DVD-R drive versus a DVD-RW or DVD+RW, then the Samsung-created disc MUST be
finalized. Further, IME, many computers prefer to work with DVD+R/RW while
I picked up a Samsung combination VCR-DVR to transfer old VHS home videos to
DVDs. It worked, but only
sorta. The transfer quality is OK, and the Samsung can play them, but none of
my PCs recognize them--
they all say Insert disk when I try to do anything. This means I can't edit
or make
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