Panasonic DMR-ES40VS DVD Recorder/VCR Combo - Product Of the Week
Friday February 3, 2006
Panasonic unveils its DMR-ES40VS DVD recorder/VCR combination. The DVD recorder section records on DVD-R/-RW/+R and DVD-RAM discs and also offers progressive scan output on playback. The VCR section is a standard VHS HiFi Stereo unit. Its built-in tuner can record from antenna, cable, or connect to a satellite box. This unit also has composite, S-video, and DV (iLink, Firewire) video inputs. The ES40VS also offers enhanced image quality at the 4-hour recording mode, which provides more flexibility when recording long movies or sporting events. The ES40VS provides useful features for those wanting to add a DVD recorder and replacing a VCR.
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It apparently seems to still be illegal to change Movies you have bought onto a different media (even if you destroy the original media). I don’t want to do it to “break the law”, I just want all those tapes condensed down so I have some empty shelves and drawers — and I didn’t even keep ALL of them that we had bought. See, on the truck, we couldn’t rent and return, and TV usually got interrupted before a show was over, so we bought when we could find them cheap.
I had asked for a VHS to DVD unit for Christmas a couple years ago, just for the purpose of condensing these hundreds of VHS Movies to DVD. I finally got it out of the box to try to accomplish this as my next ‘project’, and find that it will not copy them. What’s the point of making these units, if we can’t make one copy on the newer media, for our own use.
Is there any way of copying these the one time? I will be glad to destroy the originals after copy.
understand your frustation – but it all has to do with copyrights – Here is an article on this subject that goes into more detail:
Video Copy-Protection and DVD Recording
http://hometheater.about.com/od/hometheatervideobasics/qt/qtvideocopy.htm
However, keep in mind that you can copy any home recorded VHS tapes you have made – such as camcorder videos, recordings made from TV shows and movies that you originally made yourself (except some recordings made from HBO or other pay services as they use a form of copy-protection that allows an initial recording, but not a copy to be made).
Let me know if this info helps.
Robert Silva
hometheater.guide@about.com
http://hometheater.about.com
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