Opinions about this vhs to dvd?

[Haopengyou]

http://www.amazon.com/JVC-DRMV100B-Upconverting-Recorder-Built/dp/B0015IL57I

I am not sure about the best place to post this - please feel free to move it. It is "capturing" in the sense that it is taking the analog vhs and making a dvd out of it.

Does anyone have one of these, or have any first hand experience using one? I would appreciate your input. I am looking at the pro's and con's of doing computer+high quality VCR+TBC+etc VS a machine like this one. The task is to create DVD's out of commercially made vhs and svhs movies that are in pretty good shape.

[minidv2dvd]

not that one. but any all in one will probably respect the macrovision encoded on the commercial tapes and not convert it to digital.

[Haopengyou]

How many tapes have macrovision encoding?

[guns1inger]

Any commercial studio product sold in the US, Europe, Australia and beyond. Given China's robust support for the enforcement of copyright, I suspect most local product will be Macrovision free.

[sambat]

How many tapes have macrovision encoding?

My Walt Disney do.
Neither Godfather 1 or 2, Star Trek TMM, Get Shorty or many others have it.
I know my copy of the Terminator does, but True Lies doesn't.
When I was copying my tapes to disk, I found that a third had protection.

[lordsmurf]

No.

[hech54]

Any commercial studio product sold in the US, Europe, Australia and beyond.

I've yet to come across a PAL tape....be it from Europe or Australia....that I could not easily copy. I've
used both SCART and S-Video connections with no problems whatsoever with my Philips VR1200 machine.
First to a Philips DVD Recorder...and now to my computer via a Hauppauge PVR-350....never a copy problem.

[sambat]

Any commercial studio product sold in the US, Europe, Australia and beyond.

I've yet to come across a PAL tape....be it from Europe or Australia....that I could not easily copy. I've
used both SCART and S-Video connections with no problems whatsoever with my Philips VR1200 machine.
First to a Philips DVD Recorder...and now to my computer via a Hauppauge PVR-350....never a copy problem.

I copied my (NTSC) tapes to my Panasonic recorder that honours Macrovision.
The protected tapes were run through an old Radio Shack 'Video Stabilizer'

[hech54]

I must be typing in Swahili or something.

[lordsmurf]

I must be typing in Swahili or something.

Que?

[redwudz]

'nini' might be more appropriate for Swahili. (What?) Porn tapes don't usually have Macrovision, but no one probably needed to know that. But I would bet you will run into more than a few commercial US VHS tapes with Macrovision and that may be a problem for a VHS/DVR combo unit.

Considering the price of that unit, I would look into separate VHS player and DVR recorder, then if you do run into Macrovision, you could insert a stabilizer between the units.

[mumba-yumba]

http://www.amazon.com/JVC-DRMV100B-Upconverting-Recorder-Built/dp/B0015IL57I

I am not sure about the best place to post this - please feel free to move it. It is "capturing" in the sense that it is taking the analog vhs and making a dvd out of it.

Does anyone have one of these, or have any first hand experience using one? I would appreciate your input. I am looking at the pro's and con's of doing computer+high quality VCR+TBC+etc VS a machine like this one. The task is to create DVD's out of commercially made vhs and svhs movies that are in pretty good shape.

Hi haopengyou,
Have you considered using a video stabilizer?