help poink bootleg some shit

[p0ink]

hey, i need some help here. I want to make 'backups' of some vhs tapes that i have on to another vhs, problem is the tapes are copy protected. what can i do?

 

[p0ink]

save me some money god dammit

 

[djardin]

Go to a flea market or yard sale and buy the oldest VCR that you can find that still works. The VCR's that were built befor 6 yeares ago will not read the Macrovision that the new tapes are encoded with. Thats how I copied pumping iron

 

[p0ink]

Go to a flea market or yard sale and buy the oldest VCR that you can find that still works. The VCR's that were built befor 6 yeares ago will not read the Macrovision that the new tapes are encoded with. Thats how I copied pumping iron

FUCKING SHIT!!! I had an old vcr till about a month ago and tossed the damn thing. *sigh* any other way?

 

[djardin]

No other way as of now. They all have the chip that detects it. Yuo can get one at a yard sale for about $10

 

[malhavoc]

At Futureshop (canada's equivalent of Best Buy) they used to sell a macrovision decoder (it wasn't actually called that though). It was a small box that would act as a pass through between the source and the destination. I think it cost around 50$ or so.

 

[Lao Tzu]

hes right. i can't remember the year, but i think it was 94 or 96 when chips were installed to prohibit bootlegging. so you need a recorder made before then.

 

[lil k]

At Futureshop (canada's equivalent of Best Buy) they used to sell a macrovision decoder (it wasn't actually called that though). It was a small box that would act as a pass through between the source and the destination. I think it cost around 50$ or so.

yes...they still sell those at Best Buy.

 

[p0ink]

ok, so would i need two vcr's made before 94-96? or just one? like play the tape on a new vcr and record to an old vcr?

 

[Lao Tzu]

ok, so would i need two vcr's made before 94-96? or just one? like play the tape on a new vcr and record to an old vcr?

http://www.repairfaq.org/filipg/LINK/F_MacroVision.html


the answers should be there somewhere

 

[p0ink]

thank you