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Originally Posted by greytone
It is time to clean up my stack of old VHS tapes that are collecting dust. I have also purchased books that look like photo albums to hold my surprisingly large collection of DVD's and CD's. So I thought I would dub all my old VHS tapes that I rarely if ever play. I may want to watch some of these old movies in the future if I ever have a long weekend stuck home in the rain...like that ever happens.
I have made a real dent in the pile, but some of the tapes are copy protected. As I will be destroying the tapes after dubbing them, is there an easy and inexpensive way for a technophobe to get around this?
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There was some kind of copy protection scheme on some VHS tapes that made the quality crappy when you tried to record by running cables from the out jacks of one VHS deck into a second VHS recorder. I had what the manufacturer called a "video clarifier" that defeated it.
I'd try plugging the cables from the VHS deck into the DVD recorder, like someone else said.