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Hi, my name is Jake and I recently purchased a Cyber Home DVR-1600 DVD Recorder from a nearby Menards........and when i started reading the box it said that I could copy VHS to DVD, etc. Well, I thought that was pretty cool; so right away I went home and hooked it up; because we had bought this recorder to backup our home movies and commercial VHS tapes.
So when I first tried to copy the VHS of Happy Gilmore, it said the signal was copy protected. So then, I decided to see if I could work around this protection, and eventually what i did was hit record on my DVD Recorder, leave it for a few seconds on the blue screen of my VCR, then pushed play on the VCR; and I was able to copy the whole movie to DVD.
But now, here's where my problem comes in; now that I had Happy Gilmore, I thought I'd be able to do the same thing w/ all my other Macrovision protected tapes........but when I tried to do the same method w/ the VHS tape Mrs. Doubtfire, my DVD Recorder would recognize the Macro signal within 30 sec. to a minute of the video starting; so then I went on the internet and found that you can get video stabilizers which completely rid the Macro on all VHS. So I went around finding some ranging from 20.00 to about 2000.00 dollars!!! But since I'm not prone to ordering things off the internet; I was wondering if they sell these at Best Buy or Circuit City; or is there just another way to circumvent the Macro w/o a stabilizer???? Also, which would be the most suitable for my type of recorder and the task i'm doing???
P.S. Thank you, to anybody that has some positive input on this subject!
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