What I have been trying to do is to copy my vhs tapes onto my hard drive using my ATI 9800 AIW card. I originally bought an Electrohome V0761 Stabilizer that had 1 S-Video input and 1 RCA output. I bought a multi-shielded S-Video/RCA adapter to help with the black and white screen I was getting. What I ended up with was a distorted screen that was barely viewable. I then bought a Electrohome V0760 Stabilizer that had a RCA input and output. Even though the battery is working, the unit doesn't seem to work. I get the same image if the stabilizer isn't hooked up. So, what I am wondering is this: are Electrohome stabilizers just not very good or is it something else that I am overlooking?
Well, I can't offer any advice on the Electrohome stabilizer, but for not much more money than you'd pay for a decent video stabilizer, there's another option. I also have an ATI AIW card and noticed it wouldn't encode Macrovision tapes. I bought a Hauppauge PVR-150 (if you shop around you should find one for around $50). It's a PCI capture card, hardware mpeg2 encoder and besides giving good quality captures it ignores Macrovision completely. You should be able to backup all your tapes no problem. http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html
Thanks for the info, I will give it a shot. I have been so frustrated that I will try almost anything right now. I do love my ATI AIW card, it has been great at recording shows right off of cable and satellite but I will give Hauppauge a try.
macrovision will still cause problems, and with burning straight to dvd you'd have to rip that again on your computer in order to do any editing, which costs both time and extra blank discs.
yea i know i'm surprised at what it's capable of doing i've even recorded some new releases just to see if they would work too...no problems at all...it's the best recorder i've seen so far.
I'm currently waiting for the Hauppauge card to come in. I would use a recorder but I want to edit out the commercials and add some features so I am going the PC route. I can't wait to get this done as some of the tapes are fairly old.
I don't believe your DVD Recorder ignores macrovision unless it was sold outside the US. There are a lot of DVDs made by independents or majors who don't have a big investment in them, that are NOT macroed. Mike Rice
Its not about lying. If you're not having macrovision problems, there has to be an explanation. Where do you live, for instance? Is yours an american system and records in NTSC video? What are some of the dvds you have recorded with this dvd machine that sees no macrovision? Its not because you're lying, its because there has to be an explanation. That's the way things work in the world of problem-solving.
well i wont worry about it..i'm just glad mine does it...but just so you know i did some new releases like the amityville horror..the longest yard...and some sony made movies too just to see if it would work & it did...so i'm just glad it does what it does...so i want have to buy 1 of those stabilizers.
I,ALSO, BOUGHT A DVD RECORDER THAT COPIES THE VCR MOVIES FLAWLESSLY. BUT, ABOUT 40 PERCENT WILL NOT. IT JUST WORKED RIGHT AWAY... NEW MOVIES. I WAS THINKING, HOW SMART I AM .. UNTIL I STARTED RUNNING INTO THE MOVIES THAT WILL NOT GO THRU THE DVD RECORDER. MOVIES THAT HAVE GONE THRU RUN THE WHOLE LENGTH OF YEARS. GLADIATORS, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, SIMONE, FRIDAY, ABOUT 50...60, S0 FAR. FURTHERMORE SOME OTHERS THAT WOULD NOT GET PAST THE COPYRIGHT... I WAS ABLE TO RECORD BY STOPPING RECORD, RETRYING RECORD UNTIL THE SIXTH TITLE... THEN IT JUST COPIED.ALSO BY USING A SECOND VCR, GOING THRU THE FIRST VCR, CHANGING THE IMPUT.. HAD TO GO TO THE SIXTH TITLE TOO MUCH TROUBLE THOUGH. SO, NOW I AM LOOKING A WAY TO GET THE REST THRU WITHOUT A BUNCH OF PROBLEMS. SO, I AM LOOKING FOR A "STABILIZER", OE SOMETHING. ONE THING THAT I HAVE NOTICED IS THAT "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS" MOVIES ARE THE ONES THAT DO NOT GO THRU.
hey, no writing in all caps, okay, mike? forum rules, is all. if you do a search, you should find quite a bit on this.
i have no problems with dvds becuse i just run through the dvd-r and use either shrink or if the dvd has other protection shrink will not remove then i run it through clone dvd but my trouble is on some vcr tapes not all when try record the screen will go white but as soon as stop recording its there again i have a comnpro gold pci card
