DVD Recoding

bklaus · Joined: 20 Jul 2007 Posts: 2 Location: eCommerce Department

Question on the 80-4280 - Digital Video Stabilizer. Can this device be used for copying a tape with copy guard to a DVD?

MCMBryan · Moderator Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 22

Great question Brian, When you are playing back movies, you will notice annoying periodic color darkening, color shift, unwanted lines, flashing or jagged edges. This can be caused by older tape or other interferences. This device will keep the signal pure from source to display or when copying, it is from from deck to deck and eliminate interferences and imperfections.

I am not familiar with "Copy Guard" but I am not aware that this device will eliminate any copy protection schemes.

Thanks,

MCM/Bryan

curadebt_fees · Joined: 05 Mar 2009 Posts: 7

Digital Video Stabilizer can be used to for copying a tape with copy guard to a DVD?

davideliza · Joined: 17 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

Hi Bklaus,
First things first: we're speaking of DVD Movie, aka: DVD-Video. DVD-ROM is handled the same way as any other data source. DVD-Audio will be a whole other set of issues when it settles down. So the question is, essentially, how does one record a DVD Movie onto some recordable, flat medium.
Part one of the answer is that you can capture the movie in analogue or by some digital mechanisms to your hard drive. Whether that capture is AVI, MPEG1 or MPEG2, it can be processed to a form suitable for CD recording: VCD, SVCD or what have you. The result will be at best a collection of CD-Rs playing chunks of the original, usually in poorer quality and in violation of copyright. For example, a 160-minute DVD Movie will convert to three VCD's at less than VHS quality and without the supplements, alternate angles, subtitles and other goodies of the original. If that's what you're after, go to it and keep the copyright cops away.