Dvd & vhs

[win505]

My old VHS is slowly giving up the ghost and so we have decided to move with the times and get one of those DVD/HDD recorder things. The problem is that we have a stack of store bought videos that my kids still want to watch. I'm not looking to start a pirate movie business but I think it fair for me to copy those movies over to DVD for personal use. Does anyone have any suggestions or links that can help? Cheers in advance.

 

[LTR12101B]

Store bought videos will probably be protected by Macrovision (analog).
While most consumer DVD recorders will refuse to copy, it's unclear if PC video capture devices detect and honour the analog protections. To be honest, the Hong Kong/Chinese cheap USB capture devices on Ebay are possibly more likely to just not bother about protection, than the brand name products

Otherwise, it will need a "sync stabilizer", or a "Grex" to defeat the protections, even if "fair use permission" applies

 

[andje71]

This will not land you in jail... it sounds like what you want to do is make a single personal copy of each video to DVD... this is NOT illegal. A single personal back-up copy is covered in the fair use rules. Just don't make several copies or try to distribute/exhibit them, and you don't need to worry about the law. Making a back up copy of media is NOT pirating, and the courts have recognized this. You will need a DVD Recorder, and, Grex video stabilizer to transfer your VHS media to DVD.For real – I have never seen a quicker or easier method .

 

[andje71]

I can recommend a company with a solution. Here is the site I have found: Grex Advanced digital video stabilizer with high quality S-Video support
They have a device called Grex video stabilizer. I heard that with Grex help it will be
possible to remove protection from DVD and TV channels and thus be able to download protected video to DVD.