You can find VHS at most thrift stores for less than a dollar or failing that amazon. Normally no more than a few dollars with shipping on amazon especially on videos that over-saturated the market.
I just happen to have a blank one that came with it's own blank labels. Remove the five screws holding the cassette together then while holding it together flip it to the top, press the side button and then remove the top half. Look at the order the tape is in as you will need it to match when you transfer it.
There are all sorts of small items in here to lose,above is a side by side comparison of all the stuff that can fall out if you open these with the screw side up. Now, press these arms up and remove the tape spools of the new one and set it aside.
Now take out the spool you wish to save and put it in its place. Gently sliding the tape between the rollers seen above. Then take the slack out of the tape by winding the left one tighter if needed. Time to put the the newly functional tape back together. Take the top, kick up the hing again. Lower it back on and flip it down the protective arm.
Hold it together tightly turn it over and replace the five screws. Reply 2 years ago. Don't throw it away. DVD can degrade in less than 5 years if it's a bad disk. I'd advise a hard drive and cloud back up too. Reply 4 years ago. To answer your question. I can verify, You can not convert a VHS if it will not play, try putting one like the above it in the player and risk ruining both entirely. Granted I would not be shocked if there is a way to by pass all that by now.
I just have yet to come across it. Would be cool though. Great idea! You need to be able to play it before you can do anything with it. Also if you do transfer it you should probly still keep the tape in case you need to transfer it again in the future.
Redundancy is underrated sometimes. That's what I thought you were going to do. I've done some VHS tape surgery back in the day myself. Search the net for images and reprint the label with a color printer. That's a finishing touch I think. Thanks for producing this 'ible! That sounds like a perfect addition to this. I have a Toshiba set top dvd recorder and want to make backups of my vhs collection.
Does anyone know of any filters or devices or bios upgrades for the recorder that will let me get by the copy protection? Want my help? Ask here! Have been backing up my VHS collection now for a while, I am on number 52 so far. It has worked very well for me so far and can be found at Best Buy. I bought one, as I wanted to do a backup of some of my Disney DVD's, so that when we travel the grandchildren can watch them, but I would not have to worry about damage or loss to the originals.
I followed the directions perfectly, but could not get it to work. I have a rather complex arrangement which may or may not be why I have a prob. If it is OK to ask about this here, let me know and I will go in to more detail. TKS DS. Some DVD recorders are more picky about copy protection than others.
It might, but not always. It was also what the salesman said I would need to do the backups, not that I believe everything salespeople tell me. That's for non-protected content. And even then, entirely unnecessary. Most salesman are as clueless as it gets, especially ones that sell technology. It's an "enhancer" device. Totally worthless. It may remove proection, it may not. You can use a computer with a burner to do a digital transfer.
This is the best method. You can also buy a TBC for analog transfers, put it between player and recorder. DVD Decrypter is free real simple to learn. It duplicates the entire DVD instead of just the movie.
It's also quicker than playing a DVD for hours. Thanks for all the input. Don't mean to be dumb but what is TBC? I have used DVD Decrypter and have never been able to get anything but the movie, none of the extras, etc.
My computer is not the fastest in the world, so it takes me 4 to 8 hours to encode the movie and I thought if I could just copy from DVD to Recorder it would be ever so much faster and not keep puter tied up so long. Yes I know I can still use puter, but that slows the process down even more. I would like to try the other equipment, but if it is not sold in local stores it makes it a bit of a nusiance if it does not work with my overall setup.
Never used DVD shrink , I know there is someplace in this area I can find dir for it, point me in right direction, might give it a try. Currently I have a VCR, DVD player and DVD Recorder all hooked into my TV along with cable line no box, direct line into TV Since recorder and player need to be plugged into TV to work, also have a splitter box, player and recorder plug into and I hit a button to choose which I want to use, and thought perhaps this would cause me probs with using another go between to copy from one place to another.
Again thanks for all the input and hope I can eventually find a way to copy from player to recorder. Everyone on these forums are so helpful and really nice to work with. Definitely better than support from manufacturers. T TBC. Is there any equipment that would allow me to do backup copies of my purchased DVD's. Should feed into the recorder just fine. That's strange that DVD Decrypter is taking so long as it doesn't re-enode.
I've done many myself. Here's a link to DVD Shrink It allows you to omit unused audio tracks to help maintain video quality in full back-up mode or you can "re-author" to make a movie-only disc. By the way, my computer isn't the fastest either so I usually set up my back-ups to encode overnight and then I just burn the disc in the morning. Also, please explain what you meant by Did it record garbage or a blank screen? What exactly happened?
Dumb question here, but wouldn't a macrovision free Skyworth p for example dvd player be copyable? I know when I try to copy some things to my Ilo DVDR04 from vhs it sets off the flag for protected content but then the Ilo is sensitive to some vcr's. But if I copy the same material to my Sony 8mm vcr, then copy it to the Ilo no problem.
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