i'm trying to copy some of our old vhs movies to dvd and trying to use the panasonic dmr-es30v and come to find out it won't back up the tapes becasue of some kind of copy protection thing. my mother in law bought the sony vrd-vc20 to copy some of her old vhs movies she captured off her tv years ago. she wasn't having any problems so i bought one and haven't set it up yet. but going through some of the forums i'm starting to find that you can't back up your old vhs movies (commerical recorded tapes) with anything out there! it's kinda frustrating. these ol dtapes the wife and i have are about dust. i'd love to get them on dvd. any suggestions?
I can copy any commercial vhs tape to dvd just fine.I tried the same thing you did with a vhs/dvd recorder machine and ran into the same problem.So from that point I was stuck with either checking on the internet for some type of gadget or getting lucky at the computer store with a component that would work for vhs transfers.I went to one computer store and asked the sales rep if there was such a thing.He told me that they cannot sell anything in the store that will remove copy protection.Well I found his statement to be a bunch of BS because I can copy just fine.Here is what you neeed, you need a capture card or tv tuner card.Any cheap card should work fine and should have no warnings on the box or booklet concerning the copy protection.Next you'll need a s-video cable from vcr to the computers capture card and a mini-Y plug from radio shack to split the sound unless you can hook up the SPDIF connection from the vcr to the computer if the motherboard supports it along with the vcr if it has that audio connection.So at this point if the program that came with your card is good then it will let you copy the movie as a file to the computer.If you stream it just straight to nero vision, nero will give a copy protect error message so use nero vision last to burn under create your own dvd option with the file from the computer and create a menu. If your capture card program unfortunatley has copy warnings at the start try running DVD43 in the background or ANYDVD to help eliminate that problem and you should be able to back up you VHS tape to a DVD.
thanks! I'll give that a shot. can you recommend a capture card or tv tuner card? and will these 'cards' adapt to a toshiba laptop? i have the pci(?) card slot. sorry for bein' such a mess on this tech stuff! never did really get on to it. must be the old age catchin' up ta me! ) i appreciate your help with this.
So far this is the most mentioned card in afterdawn as a capture card: http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr250.html . I purchased a tv tuner card from compUSA called a norwood micro tv tuner.The program works great and I burn it with nero vision with a menu at the beginning of the screen.Nero vision also allows you to create chapters also.Now if you have a lap top you may have to look around for a video coversion box with a USB plug to transfer the video and some way to run sound cables for the lap top.Thats what I would look for if I had a laptop or try to do for that matter.
