Need recording DVD's help!!

[hskerprid]

I have a Sony VHS to DVD recorder and I have transfered most of my collection over to DVD.

 

My question is how do you record the copyrighted games?? I have all the games thisa year recorded on my DVR but everytime I try to rip them to DVD it syas it can't record copyrighted material. Wasn't it copyrighted on the VHS too??

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

[strigori]

VHS predates digital copyright protection, the tech just was not there. To get them off a DVR from a cable or sat company requires doing some illegal things. The only real way to do it is to build a PC complete with a Tuner card, and make the computer into a DVR. I used to work with a guy who did this, it can get a bit pricy, and you need to know your way around computers.

[redblooded]

Yeah it will probably take a PC and a way to get the files off the DVR to the PC. It probably isn't something you'd be able to easily tackle even then (I know back 10 years ago when I had a TIVO, they did things like offset the disk so you couldn't pull it out of the Tivo and read it in a computer).

 

It's probably more involved then consumer hardware can tackle and frankly more of a pita then dealing with digital things should be (all for artificial reasons (see DRM)).

 

I'd suggest finding a football torrent site, a "peerblock"-ing program and just downloading the games again to burn them to dvd from the computer and you won't have to deal with all the bull that copying them from a DVR would entail.

 

and then stop supporting companies that make things like this a pita.

[hskerprid]

Thanks guys! That torrent site is a good idea that I hadn't thought of. I was thinking that maybe someone would tell me that I could take off the back of the DVD recorder and pull a diode or something and record away! Ya, in case you haven't guessed I'm not very tech savy. Thanks for the replys!!!

[scarletNcream]

Not too many torrent sites carry Husker games. If your TV has a video out, buy a cheap Dazzle or some type of dongle. You can turn any cpu into a DVR, Just get a video tuner card (make sure it is HD though)