dvd to vhs

[dijon]

Is it possible to transfer a dvd film which was downloaded to a vhs tape, tried but get black and whitepicture that won't keep still.

[feenix]

A liitle bit more info please.

What method are you using to record onto the VHS?

If you are using a TVout facility does it appear ok viewing it on the television?

[davvve]

Sounds like dijon is having the old NTSC to PAL conversion problem. You need to either make the original DVD PAL to start with, or purchase a digital standards converter.

[feenix]

I wouldn't have thought so. The only way I know of recording to VHS is through the TV Out and you can only record what's playing on your PC monitor. So the format of the source should be irrelevant as long as it can be played.

Anyway, until the Dijon responds we won't know how he's trying to accomplish it.

[jondi]

sorry for the delay but had to work. All I am doing is playing the disk through my stand alone player and altering the setting on the TV to EXT 1 or maybe it was 2 I can't remember. As for the quality of the original well it's good but it is NTSC.

[jurynel]

Just supply a tiny bit more info. Is the DVD you are trying to copy to VHS copy protected? Like Macrovision? That would keep your picture hopping around. Most bought DVD's have these copy protections.

[feenix]

Ooops! Couldn't have been more wrong could I?

[jurynel]

Yea, probably you could have been . . . but you could also have been right ! ! !
I always say that computers are not smarter than us, they just faithfully remember all our mistakes long after we have forgotten them, and then bash us sensfully with it.

[jondi]

The film has been downloaded from the net, it's the 9-11 documentary by the two french brothers in NY. So I don't know if it has macrovision. If it has how do I overcome this.

[jurynel]

That's a good one. A DVD film downloaded from the net? 4.7Gb downloaded???? uh . . .

[jondi]

well that's what I was told when I was given it , can you still help.