Easy 1: make sure you have a video card with tv out..s-video then 2: get tv tool (http://ww.tvtool.com) great little program...or you can use the one with ur card...if you have tv out option then 3: if you use tvtool...it has a ption to take macrovision off...then just hook it up to ur vcr (if ur vcr dosent have s-video, they sell a little adapter in Radio Shack that you connect the s-video IN and has some RCA'S OUT....then just hook it up to ur VCR. and walla get a blanck vhs tape make sure you have it set to SP mode...better quality...latas if ya need some help reply back....laters If it's a DVD R-+ and you have a dvd player its much easier...thats if ur dvdR has no macrovision...latas let me know.