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DVD>VHS/VCR

Jun 9, 2005 11:37PM PDT

How difficult is it transfere DVD to VHS/VCR.

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If the materials is non-copy protected,
Jun 10, 2005 2:19AM PDT

it should be preetty easy to do ; Just connect the composite signal from dvd to vcr (red, wht, yel.)

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I tried that
Jun 10, 2005 9:30AM PDT

It is non-copy protected-family stuff. I thought it would be easy as you describe. It strarts out great then goes into a snow program. I was told this comes from different format.

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I don't think I understand.
Jun 10, 2005 10:03AM PDT

Composite is composite, I didn't know it has different format. You are connecting (red,wht,and yellow) output on the dvd player to the (red, wht, and yellow) input of the vcr and set the vcr to video 1 or 2 (what ever it may be)? If your vcr is not color coded, the yellow represant the VIDEO and the red, wht are AUDIO.

Do you have an rf coax connection on the dvd, if so, maybe you can try that but now set the vcr to channel 3. Let us know how it goes, good luck.

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DVD-VHS one unit
Jun 16, 2005 3:31PM PDT

You are right about the composite. I did not know my Mom had a DVD recorder-VHS player in one unit. She assumed it was hooked together right.
Can she accomplish the copying DVD>VHS from the one unit w/o borrowing another VHS/VCR unit?