Slight OT question

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Ken Oakley-Sunny St. Cloud, Fla.

>Radio Shack sells a unit for less then $100 a friend of mine bought and he has been transferring tapes to DVD ever since with good results. And believe me if he can do it anybody can. But I still love the guy.

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Don Evans

>Hi Jim:

I have a machine I purchased just for that purpose. It is an LG model HC199 from Best Buy.

It does all formats, has VHS and DVD built into it so just pressing the "dub" button is about all there is to doing it.

Because of it's versitility expect to pay in the $350.00 range.

Don

Question for Jim...

David Sparks

>Hi Jim,

Some VHS tapes have copyguard on them. Have you had problems dubbing these to DVD with your machine? Thanks for your help.

David

Oops! I meant question for Don!

David Sparks

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Ernie Miller

>I haven't heard of a copy guard but thay do have tabs on them to prevent you from copying over them if you want to do that you have to put a peice of tape over the void left after removing the tab. Once you have the signal in the cable I don't see how they can stop you from recording it.

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Tony - Memphis

>I just went through that. I realized I had a lot of ww vhs tapes. I bought a Panasonic DVD recorder at BestBuy (on sale) for under a hundred dollars. It works very well. I have only done a few tapes so far, but they look good. Its nice to have the recorder as an additional recording device for tv too. I just keep a DVD-RW in it and use it over and over just like a tape.

Tony

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Tom

>Many commercial tapes (read movies, not usually things like self-help/ww stuff) have Macrovision embedded in the signal. Most dvd recorders will not copy those. There are work-arounds, like a $30 black box (or much more expensive versions) or doing it on your pc.

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Dustmaker Mike

>I got the unit from Wally World for under $50:00 USD and it works great. I copy from my DVR all the time I just use the Yellow Red and White RCA cables to it from the DVR or the VHS tape palyer or a Cassette played etc and hit a few buttons and it records it to a HDD or DVD. It is USB 2.0 which I don't like because it lags the TV screen by a second or so but you get used to it and watch the computer screen and turn down the TV.

Just remember 1 hour of tape is about 1.5 hours of record and burn time.

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Lee Gordon

>If I need to copy a VHS tape onto a DVD, I do it on my computer. Of course, to do this the computer must be equipped with a DVD burner. You also need a video capture device. Mine is a Dazzle DVC 80. One end plugs into a USB port on the computer and the other end has inputs for the red & white audio outputs from the VCR as well as the yellow video output. Alternately, there is an S-Video connection which can be used instead of the yellow one if your VCR has that capability. The device came with Pinnacle DVD authoring/burning software. Other similar devices are available.

If I want to copy a tape, I just set up a VCR near the computer, plug it into the Dazzle device, plug the Dazzle into the USB port, open the Pinnacle software and capture the video. I then trim out the commercials or whatever I don't need to save, and burn what's left onto DVD.