the Pan DMR-E30 and its protection BS

[Bob W]

My friend has a Panasonic E30 and says the Sima SED-CM Video CopyMaster works. You can buy it from J&R Music & Computer world (http://www.jandr.com) for $49.88 plus shipping. I was thinking of trying it on my E30 as well.

Yeah I also use the CopyMaster which I bought at BestBuy for $40 USD.

[igman]

The AVT-8710 arrived last week. Not only does it defeat copy protection on my VHS tapes but it does a dynamite job on cleaning up the image. The three DVD's I've made using the TBC work great.

[thoots]

Folks,

By the way, for those wondering what some of us are talking about, here's what you get if CGMS won't let you record something:



For what it's worth, I bought an Apex AD-5131 three-disc changer a week or two ago when Wal-Mart had piles of them. Hooked that up to my DMR-E50 via S-Video, popped in a DVD, and hit the record button -- worked like a charm!

So far, it has recorded any commercial DVD I've tossed into it. Oh, and for what it's worth again, I just want to make a few "compilation" DVD's of my existing DVD's -- my favorite scenes from the Star Trek movies, and so on. I'm kind of a "short attention span" viewer. And, yes, I'd KILL to be able to record my Star Wars commercial VHS tape to DVD, but the picture above shows what happened when I tried that. I guess I'll have to get me one of them there boxes....

thoots

[shandy2]

I have had the above problem but I cured it by bying a Macro Master Pro £22.99. I have a panasonic E30 recorder and the laed copys all.
It has just come out so it's new.
Shandy2

[cdeviney]

THOOTS-

How do you have your AD-5131 hooked up to your Panasonic recorder? I tried to copy from the 5131 to the E80 and got the copy protection screen. I am using the S-video cable and L-R analog for sound.

[jewel_brite]

I'm trying to copy from my HS2 to a VHS. I contacted the local Panasonic dealer and they informed me that the HS2 was designed so that I can't copy my homemade DVD's to VHS, which I think is BULL. Their reasoning? They said they didn't want me to copy commercial DVDS. When I pointed out this was my own DVD and not a commercial one, she then said, "well the machine will still THINK you're copying a commercial DVD."

Has anybody been able to get around this? How?

thanks for any help

[Bob W]

The Sima CopyMaster will not defeat the macrovision however this device works great either recording from VHS or from another DVD player to my Panasonic E50 recorder.
http://www.facetvideo.com/

[donpedro]

Has anybody been able to get around this? How?

I am not sure if they include some kind of copy protection in DVD stream, but one way that you might be able to overcome this is to rip DVD to PC (getting rid of protection) and burn it with PC DVD Writer. Just an idea...

[ckdexterhn1]

Here's one that I use, although I didn't pay that much for it -

http://www.cable-descrambler-importers.com/digitaldvdstabilizer.htm

I brought mine back in the 90's for $5 at a discount store. They had hundreds of them! I already had a similar model I got at a local video store for $59, so I just brought one to see if it would work like my more expensive one, and it did. I went back that afternoon...every single one gone! Sold out!

I use mine with my Panasonic E50, no problems what so ever.