VHS copy protection

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 4:56 pm

Ok, for college I dont want to take my VHS tapes. I want to take my DVDs and laserdiscs. Now, lately I have been buying the single movies and recording my series' via this DVD recorder we have that copies directly from VHS to DVD. This is great because I can blank out the disc and re-use it when I buy the DVD of the movie I recorded.

Anyway, In recording my Series' I have ran into volumes that dont record via copy right protection, such as my Rocky IV (All the others record and they are from the same box set), and My Star Trek V (Same problem as rocky IV)

Is there a way I can disable the copy protection on VHS tapes or in the VCR?

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:45 pm

you can play it back on a seperate vcr and feed the vcr output into the dvd recorder.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:52 pm

I do that, but it dont work on some tapes, al a Rocky 4.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:40 pm

maybe its 'macrovision'? I know that they have that on dvd players.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question313.htm

here. I googled it for you

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:39 am

hmm idk o you could feed the vcr out into a capture card and burn it to a dvd that way

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:47 pm

My computer is too slow to do that.

I hear using a 2 Head VCR would work against macro vision.

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:09 pm

gamer2 wrote:I hear using a 2 Head VCR would work against macro vision.

Yeah, but you don't want to use a 2 head VCR. Crap quality. Like REALLY bad compared to a 4-head.

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:46 pm

If you don't mind spending some money, there are "black boxes" you can connect between the VCR and DVD recorder that would remove the Macrovision.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:46 pm

If you mind spending the money but dont mind programming a microcontroller, you could make a 'black box' yourself. you just have to hold the line low during the blanking interval (I think)