dvd recorder on hardrive....

[spiderman03]

i have a dvd recorder with a hardrive , i want to transfer a show from one dvd disc to another. can i play the disc and record it to my hardrive and then transfer the show from my hardrive to the new disc. any info would be great.

[guns1inger]

Gee, crystal ball time. Could you be a little more vague ?

How about - what brand and model ? Not all recorders have the same capabilties.

Have you read the manual that comes with it ? These things are usually explained in the manuals.

The one restriction will be that you cannot do this with commercial, protected disks.

[Cobra]

Do you have a DVD burner on your PC? That would be a lot easier!

Here's how:

- Download DVD Decrypter, install it then launch it
- Insert your disc and select the correct drive (if you have more than one DVD drive)
- Go to "Mode" --> "ISO" --> "Read"
- Click on the little folder icon (under "Destination") to choose where to put the file
- Click the big button with a DVD and a hard drive to begin copying it

To burn:

- Insert your blank DVD
- Go to "Mode" --> "ISO" --> "Write"
- Again, make sure your DVD burner is selected
- Click that little folder again and find the ISO file you just made
- Click the big button and watch it burn

It seems like a lot of steps, but it really is very easy. One assumption that I've made is that you have a single-layer DVD-R as your original disc (that's an ordinary 4.7GB writable DVD, be it -R or +R, or -RW or +RW). It's a fair bit different if you are talking about copying a commercial DVD as they hold more data, and so you need to "shrink" the video down so it will fit on a blank DVD. If this is the case, just let me know.

Hope this helps,

Cobra

[handyguy]

You cant copy commercial disks with your dvd recorder that way. Only way you can is with a macrovision free dvd player as source.