E80H Dubbing Direction Problem

[Eric M]

I have a problem dubbing in the "DVD-R to HDD" direction on my E80H. When I select this direction, I cannot arrow down to the "Select Material" box or the "Start Dubbing" button. All I can do is toggle the direction button or press "Return" to leave this screen menu. No problem dubbing in the "HDD to DVD-R" direction. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Eric M

[JCWBobC]

I could be wrong but I believe you can only record from DVD-Ram to HDD. Check page 15 of your owne's manual and it should explain this. I have read about people looping the outputs of the unit to the inputs of the unit and recording that way but I haven't tried it myself.

[Eric M]

JCWBobC: I appreciate the reply. The E80H has a dubbing direction button which toggles between "HDD to DVD-R" and "DVD-R to HDD". What I'm trying to do is record back onto the HDD the shows I previously burned onto a DVD from the HDD on my E80H. Are you thinking that I should "RECORD" the shows back to HDD and then reburn them to another disk? Thanks, Eric M

[Meritocracy]

Eric, only DVD-RAM discs can be dubbed back to the HDD on the E-80. To dub back DVDR discs you'd need to upgrade to the E-85. Other methods for you to get the footage back onto your E-80 are by dubbing the source material back once again to the HDD, playing the existing DVDR back on another DVD player and recording to the E-80's HDD, or the cable looping trick which has already been mentioned in regard to this unit.

[louthewiz]

Here is a simple solution to your problem that I have done before.1-hook up the audio cables and video cables from the out put jack and make a loop and hook it up to the L1 jack in the front of the dvd recorder and dub from dvd-r to hdd that way and thats it ,2-If you want to see what you are doing just hook up your component video cables to your tv set and use 2 Y adapters with one going to your tv and the second to the L1 inputs in front of the dvd recorder and your all done easy!!!

[tider]

I've heard of this looping trick many times. I decided to try it last night and only got static on my recording when I went to play back. I looped it from the output of the unit to the L2 on the front of the unit. Do I need to set my input to L2 for it to be able to record? Also, is there a quality loss when dubbing from DVD-R back to the harddrive?

Tider

[spiderman2k1]

There is a trcik you can take the MPEG2 file from DVD-R with TMPG and put the mpeg2 file on DVD-RAM they talk about this at www.dazzlegeek.com