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1. #Diamond video capture vc500 copy protection movie#
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And also, because many cable companies didn't put out the highest quality signals either, so video tape used to look good.

#Diamond video capture vc500 copy protection tv#

Also your TV station was sending you shows from sources than weren't that much higher quality than a commerical video tape. The reason it used to look so good was not really the number of lines, but the fact that the losses in over the air/antenna tv were so high that it made the tape look good.

If you can't record - or don't even see - the non-commercial stuff, then you've done something wrong. If you can see and record anything but the output from a commercial tape, then it's copy protection. If you can record that stuff, but not anything from a commercial tape, you have your answer.Īs to your laptop, it's the same thing. or, best yet, a home made tape that you recorded off the tv. If you want to make sure if you're hooked up properly, waste a little space on the disk and try to record anything else that comes out of the VCR, like it's (usually) blue "no signal" screen and/or some of the menu items that show up on your on screen display - like the time, "play", "rec", etc. I've haven't tried mrg's suggestion, but what he's saying is that the seperate RF modulator box - when used between the vcr and the dvd burner (or any two similar devices) - won't pass the anti-copyright signals that are used to screw up the recording (at least some, I don't know if it's effective on all types). I've worked for 3 tv stations myself, and you're almost certainly getting defeated by copy protection.

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I'm recording as much as I can of the stuff I recorded earlier fresh off the dish dvr if I have a choice between that or the older vhs copy as it's better quality.įeel free to ask more, I'm a disabled pro. most capture cards/dongles capture mpeg-2 and you have to compress from that to divx/xvid. I use a video capture box with a built-in hardware divx encoder, but those are rare now. the broadcast 'standard' was 640x480- theoretically 320 lines.

expect fairly poor quality, as vhs in standard play mode resolves 200 lines horizontally at best- the old tv's couldn't display that, the most of them.

#Diamond video capture vc500 copy protection movie#

Once you get it to record a playing tape, then you need to look at the problem of getting a full movie on a dvd-r, see if there is a high-compression 'long play' mode to record in, or divx/mpeg4. If you have prerecorded tapes with macrovision anticopy, you may need a vertical synch box to record them- the problem will show up as funny colors and the picture 'tearing' diagonally. (don't expect more than a minor difference, though) if it's not a stereo vcr you may have to use a y-cable to feed both channels on the dvd recorder from the single audio out on the vcr. If at all possible use the audio/video output on the vcr to the corresponding recording inputs on the dvd-r, and s-video if they have it.