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Just bought one yesterday, and am trying to put some VHS on DVD. It's wired through the VCR, everything visually comes up fine, but when I hit record, the recorder won't do it, and that little "stop" symbol comes up on the corner of the screen. Did I miss a step somewhere?

Guest Lawlerm
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The video must have some form of copy proection on it.

 

Try www.videohelp.com and see if theres a hack for your player or check the forums for some recommendations on equipment to break the copy protection.

Guest Lawlerm
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I'm assuming its a standalone DVD by the sound of it. Generally anything taped off TV you shouldnt have a problem with but i beleive some things are broadcast with copy protection. I think HBO shows are. I'm not sure if it's all or just some of them and i'm not sure if any other American networks do this.

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You have to input it through the AV jacks on the TV, just like a regular DVD player. Then, run another set of AV cables from the output on the VCR to the input on the DVD recorder. You then have to set the TV to "input" or whatever and set the recorder to display the input that the VCR is hooked up to. It isn't like a VCR where you just set everything to "ch. 03" and hit record. Maybe you've done all this, I don't know, but this is a problem I had when I first got one.

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You CAN still have the VCR hooked up to the TV through the normal wiring, but you also have to have it wired out to the recorder via the A/V cables. Just wanted to clear that up.

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What's the speed other people's DVD recorders can record at without the picture looking too pixelled?

 

I tried taping RAW at 4 hour speed Monday night and the picture looked like crap.

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I've got it working, thanks for the help. The problem was what JJMc mentioned, about having to be connected with the coaxial as well as the A/V wires (which isn't specified in the manual for whatever reason...it just says to use the AV's.) So it's up and running. Thanks for helping me out guys.

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