PROTECTED OR UNPROTECTED VHS
madeline
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pepito11 -
pepito11 -
Hello,
how can I tell if commercially available VHS tapes (legally purchased) that are mostly documentaries are copy-protected? Do they have a specific indication? I was thinking of buying a VHS/DVD recorder, but if I can't do the transfer, it's useless.
Moreover, a seller at a famous hi-fi store told me that I just needed to connect my VCR to the living room recorder with a scart cable without needing another device.
If that's true, I will obviously find out quickly and without any particular expense if the VHS tapes are protected.
how can I tell if commercially available VHS tapes (legally purchased) that are mostly documentaries are copy-protected? Do they have a specific indication? I was thinking of buying a VHS/DVD recorder, but if I can't do the transfer, it's useless.
Moreover, a seller at a famous hi-fi store told me that I just needed to connect my VCR to the living room recorder with a scart cable without needing another device.
If that's true, I will obviously find out quickly and without any particular expense if the VHS tapes are protected.
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Good evening,
some video cassettes are indeed protected by a copy prevention system, usually the Macrovision system.
Stand-alone DVD recorders can recognize videos that contain this protection and refuse to record.
There are ways to copy, but it seems reasonable to avoid discussing them publicly here.
A private message seems more sensible to me.
Sincerely
some video cassettes are indeed protected by a copy prevention system, usually the Macrovision system.
Stand-alone DVD recorders can recognize videos that contain this protection and refuse to record.
There are ways to copy, but it seems reasonable to avoid discussing them publicly here.
A private message seems more sensible to me.
Sincerely
Most commercially bought VHS tapes (pre-recorded VHS tapes), even the children's cartoons at 5 francs, have copy protection. Even with the best DVD recorder-VCR combo, it won’t work for those that are protected.
The only way, and a legal one, would be to have one VCR for playback and on the other side, a computer. And between the two, therefore, a capture device or card to transfer the videos.
Now, I admit that when I bought the combo (and for the price I paid), I was disappointed not to be able to simply put them on DVD. They could have allowed this copy and included an anti-copy system on the DVD. But oh well. I don’t care, I go through the capture device!
The only way, and a legal one, would be to have one VCR for playback and on the other side, a computer. And between the two, therefore, a capture device or card to transfer the videos.
Now, I admit that when I bought the combo (and for the price I paid), I was disappointed not to be able to simply put them on DVD. They could have allowed this copy and included an anti-copy system on the DVD. But oh well. I don’t care, I go through the capture device!
Good evening, I just looked at my documentary tapes and a few others, and I don't see any indications, not even on Titanic or Independence Day, I see nothing... I just recorded 5 minutes from a video guide tape without any issues, then I tried with Titanic, and there’s nothing!! My home recorder doesn't want to record the tape that is in my VHS player connected in front... I have an S-VHS player, which is connected to the recorder via the S-video input (without any additional equipment, of course)...
Hello, with a VHS recorder, you either connect it to the back of the recorder: VHS output / recorder SCART input, or at the front of the recorder with a SCART/RCA adapter that you plug into the VHS output SCART, and thus the connection at the front is made with RCA cables… I hope your DVD recorder has a hard drive; it’s so much more convenient!!
1) It seems to me that a ruling was made in 2004 following a complaint from a consumer association regarding a cassette that the buyer could not save to another medium due to Macrovision protection.
It seems the court ruled in favor of the association based on two facts:
1) that the company selling the cassette had clearly indicated that copying was illegal but had failed to mention the presence of the anti-copying system
2) that French law allows the copying of a magnetic medium for private use, especially when it comes to making a backup
I know there is a website that legally sells (at a steep price: $75 ...: it could be a subsidiary of Macrovision ...) a system that removes the protection on cassettes, but it seems they have given up.
Maybe we could undertake a collective action to demand that this protection be removed: I don’t see why I should pay the equivalent of €20 to get the same film on another magnetic medium, simply because manufacturers have decided to discontinue VHS cassettes: I believe this resembles extortion.