Samsung DVD-VR375 trouble

[SpideyTerry]

Hi, all. I was hopin' you could help me out here.

Okay, so I've had a Samsung DVD-VR375 for a couple months now and have been having increasing problems throughout. I keep trying to burn stuff onto DVD-Rs from VHS tapes I've recorded over years. I'd usually try playing the tape on a different VCR and - with the DVD-VR375 hooked up to it - recording from there. (The playback for a lot of tapes was just better, y'see.) However, there were times I'd get "copyright protection" messages here and there, and the recording would stop. Take note that at the time, if I tried again with the given section that was supposedly copyright protected, it'd then record just fine. I figured this was because of the setup I was using, so I just sucked it up whenever it happened. However, now it's happening even when I try dubbing and there's at least one VHS tape I can't dub to a DVD. It's not like these are VHS movies from a store. These are blank VHS tapes I recorded stuff onto. I gotta say, I never thought this would be an issue. I had a JVC DR-MV5S for a few years, and it only had trouble recording after years of use - not months.

Is this common? Is there anything I can do about it? If not and perhaps more importantly, are there any better VHS/DVD combos out there?

[fzabkar]

Sometimes bad tapes or dropouts can make the source appear as if it has Macrovision protection.