SCC-2 Sima Does it work?

[scustalow]

I am wanting to back up some old vhs tapes and was wondering If this item will work or should I get a dvd recorder like the lite on 5005 that the mv can be disabled.Any thoughts?

[scustalow]

Anyone??

[gshelley61]

I have the earlier model... the SCC Pro (manual controls). It's not a bad performer for the money. You can still get them from Amazon for about $80 shipped. The SCC-2 replaced the SCC and has digital controls and a remote... but I don't know if there is a picture quality improvement.

With the SCC I was able to defeat MV on the tapes that I personally have, no problem. Plus, it does a reasonably good job of picture enhancement.

[wulf109]

I have an SCC and it never failed to eliminate macrovision from VHS or DVD going to SVHS VCR. If your recording to a standalone DVD recorder it cannot eliminate digital copy protection so you couldn't copy DVD's but VHS tapes should copy,very few if any VHS tapes have digital copy protection.

[jmr2004]

I've had the CT2 for about a month.....works great.

It doesn't know what macrovision is.

[127ice]

I previously had a Sima SCC. It copies DVD's (or VHS) to VHS only.

I now have a Sima SCC-2. It copies ALL COPYGUARDED DVD's to my Panasonic DVR model DMR-E100. It also copies DVD to DVD, but I like to copy to my DVR first so I can "clean" out the unwanted intro messages and stuff.

There's no generation loss when you copy Digital to Digital, and all DVD's are Digital. (I.E: One's & Zero's on the original DVD equal One's & Zero's on the Burned DVD).

The SCC-2 has 2 S-Video and 2 RCA switchable inputs, and 2 S-Video and 2 RCA outputs. It comes with a remote control also. The color, contrast, brightness and sharpness is fully adjustable.

I highly recommend the SCC-2. It has never failed to perfectly copy any movie, even the 3 new Star Wars DVD's, which have the latest copyguard on them.

Note: If you want to copy DVD's with the Menus working, you will need a computer based copier, but with the Sima SCC-2, you will get the complete movie.

Personally, I can't see what else anyone would want. The price has came down a lot since I got mine, so now's the time to buy one. Trust me. The SCC-2 works great!