My mom refuses to use a dvd player at home, and i wanted to get her a couple of movies that she likes, but I obviously will have trouble copying them to VHS if i just plug a dvd player into a vcr. I've done some reading on several sites, but just can't get a clear picture of how to beat the copy protection.

** Disclaimer** I have every intention of buying the movies and giving them to her, its just that I can't buy them in VHS format (since they are new), so I need to make a copy.

I have a copy of DVD decrypter and DVD shrink, and I am wondering if i "decrypted" the movie and then either:
1) burned it to a blank DVD (and then copied it from a dvd player to a VHS) or
2) played it back on the computer (with video out through the VCR)
if either of those options would solve the problem and allow me to backup the DVD to VHS.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

12/7/2006 10:17:43 PM

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Dazzle/?dz=1

search for "vhs"

12/7/2006 10:43:14 PM

couldnt you just dvd decrypt your files to a computer...then get a tv tuner pci card, and hook your vcr up to that, and then like record the dvd deycrpter to vhs?

12/7/2006 10:48:02 PM

Just buy your mom a DVD player, and force her to use it. I wouldn't go through this trouble just because my curmudgeon mom wants to embrace a crappy technology.

12/7/2006 11:07:56 PM

Quote :

"Just buy your mom a DVD player, and force her to use it. I wouldn't go through this trouble just because my curmudgeon mom wants to embrace a crappy technology."

seriously...just buy her one...she'll get over it

12/7/2006 11:18:23 PM

once she tries the new technology she wont go back

12/8/2006 12:08:22 AM

we actually got her one a couple of years ago - she hated it and got rid of it.

drunknloaded, that's what i'm thinking i'll try next.

thanks!

[Edited on December 8, 2006 at 7:05 AM. Reason : .]

12/8/2006 7:04:48 AM

please dont take this the wrong way, but






is your mother retarded?

12/8/2006 7:40:22 AM

i think you should just tell your mom she's not going to ever be able to watch videos ever again unless she gets a dvd player

12/8/2006 7:58:02 AM

you are a nicer son that I. if my mom was trying to be that damn stubborn and idiotic about adapting to a "new" technology then she can miss out on the pleasure of watching new movies.

12/8/2006 9:02:14 AM

yeah, she has to accept that VHS is dead.
Does she make you convert all her new CDs to Tape or Vinyl?
Does she type letters on a typewriter and make you transcribe them into email?
Does she prefer to carry around an external battery pack and antenna for her new fangled "car phone"?

12/8/2006 9:18:37 AM

My grandma still uses VHS and refuses to use DVD. She says her DVD's get scratched up too easy. So she threw them all away. I told her to just be more careful, but you know how old people are. Stubborn and cranky.

12/8/2006 9:43:50 AM

Here are several ways of doing what you want to do, listed in order of difficulty.

#1 They sell macrovision removers online, but I doubt you want to pay $80 for this.

#2 Many computers have TV-Out built in, regretfully for playing encrypted DVDs the computer software is supposed to put macrovision into the signal (with the help of the video card). If this is your choice, you can probably find hacked DVD software which forgets to put in the macrovision.

#3 Get a VGA to RCA converter, as mentioned above, because macrovision is not currently compatible with RGB signaling (but they are working on this).

#4 Decrypt the DVD files to your harddrive and then play them from there through the computers TV-Out using any DVD software, this is because macrovision is only applied to encrypted DVDs and this would save you the need to perform any further steps.

#5 perform step #4 above and then, using packing software shrink the movie down to fit onto a DVD-R, burn it, and then do the transfer using any DVD-VCR combination.

12/8/2006 10:30:16 AM

SMASH HER VCR TO BITS LIKE AN AFRICAN WARLORD AND THEN SAY "YOU'RE NEXT" TO YOUR MOM

THEN SHE'LL USE A DVD PLAYER I FIGURE

12/8/2006 11:07:44 AM

Are the dual DVD/VHS players not able to record DVD to VHS? I know nothing about them ... just a thought.

Regardless, I would BUY her a dual player. They are under $100 and you wouldn't be forcing anything upon her. If so desired, could gradually nudge into using the DVD player through a picture slideshow of family photos, or something similar. Asking a person to accept technology (or any alien/foreign concept) which they are unfamiliar with is typically met with resistance. Force them upon it and they'll never take it. Encourage them and you might have some luck.

[Edited on December 8, 2006 at 11:53 AM. Reason : .]

12/8/2006 11:53:20 AM

wow - thanks for all of the suggestions - I will definitely try a couple from [user]LoneShark's[/user] list.

And yes - my mother can be a pain about this stuff, but I am ok with her not being interested in new technology. I have been trying to get her on email for years and it is just stressful for her, so instead she sends me letters and talk on the phone. And I'm happy to make these for her - it'll make her that much happier, seeing that everyone is telling her that she can't get new movies unless she moves to dvd.

thanks again

12/8/2006 1:31:16 PM

i have done this before just using the tv output on a video card, it was a while ago. basically no decrypting needed, just played the dvd and recorded on the vcr at the same time.

12/8/2006 3:59:34 PM

Not all video cards adequatly implimented macrovision protections, particularly old ones. A common trick was that the DVD playing software that came with the card was the only one that would turn on Macrovision, so getting a copy of PowerDVD would suffice.

12/9/2006 9:39:01 AM

http://www.officedepot.com/ddSKU.do?level=SK&id=770416

tell her to feel free to break it, its 8 bucks, she can always go back to her vhs

12/9/2006 3:42:02 PM