video to dvd

[mjandrews96]

i have some old prerecorded videos which i wish to copy to dvd when i try this i keep getting a copyright notice and am unable to make copies of the videos is there anyway around this problem i have an all in one video/dvd recorder

[ugly_bob]

not sure. It is illegal.

Try taping over the holes on the videos. The player may take this as a sign that they were pre-recorded. With the holes covered, it may well think that these are home recorded tapes and allow it.

[Ethel]

It's illegal. You can hack your machine to ignore the copyright but it doesn't always work and invalidates any guarantee.

[Loosehead]

How are you trying to do this? Just "play" them into a DVD recorder. The tape doesn't know what it's playing into.

[mjandrews96]

thanks for answers sofar i have a combined dvd.video recorder i use speed dub to try and copy it works great on home recorded videos but not on precorded videos holes taped over or otherwise a pity because some of the videos are not available on dvd

[Loosehead]

Then if you play it into a separate DVD recorder it will record ok. The combined unit is taking it upon itself to stop you copying tapes that have the tabs missing.

[Ethel]

They will not record from any video recorder on to that dvd recorder.

I have a seperate vcr hooked up to my dvd recorder and it wil not record copyrighted videos.

It appears to be recording - chugs along nicely.

At the end of the recording the dvd displays the first frame of the film with a copyright symbol - the rest of the recording is entirely blank.

[mjandrews96]

THANKS to all for suggestions have decided to give up trying to copy

[MoonRiverws]

For Mac users,you can try out Mac DVD Burner,which can help us easily convert Videos to DVD on mac:
http://www.iskysoft.com/dvd-creator-mac.html?p age=129