Hi -I am am very new to this. I have had some experience with copying home videos but now I am trying to copy VHS tapes which I had bought many year ago., I had trouble playing the DV tapes I copied using the sony on my old DVD players -I could play them on my computer and on the new Sony player I got so I assume it was a problem with the old DVD players not being able to read the formatting.

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I joined because I was interested in finding out information on how to copy my commerical vhs tapes to DVD for my own use. I have alot of tapes I have bought over the years and they are detiorating and it is getting harder to find VHS players, I have a Sony VRD-MC-5 DVD recorder which works fine with my camcorder. However when i try to copy commericial tapes from my Sony SLV D380 DVD player/cassettee recorder-I cannot copy them which I assume is ro to copy protection, I also have comcast cable and have some older Panasonic VHS recorders attached-They play videos fine on my TV but I cannot record anything- I have two sets and two diferent reforders and I get the sameproblem I cannot record anything-not just the movie channels. I have a DVR conected to one and a cable box to the other TV. Is theer anything I can get to (1) copy my movies from VHS to DVD and secondiy to record a show if I want from my tv.