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Old 04-01-2003, 01:53 AM
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Legally, you can't with Region 1 DVD players. (Thank the Hollywood establishment for that.) You can connect a DVD's output to the VCR input but you'll get the results sororitygirl2 described in her post on this thread.

Most commercial DVDs (and VHS tapes) have a form of copy protection called Macrovision. It discourages casual copying of movies by distorting the brightness and/or color balance of the recorded movie, essentially rendering the recording unplayable.

Just in case you wanted to know... commercial DVDs sold in the US and Canada are 'Region 1 encoded'. Region encoding prevents the viewing of DVDs intended for other regions. (Example: big movie in the USA is out on DVD (Region 1), but not yet released to Lower Slobovia (which is in Region 2). A Region 2 only DVD player will refuse to play any DVDs that are not R2 encoded. The reverse is true; if you happen to like this little art-house film released to DVD in Lower Slobovia, but no plans are made to release it in Region 1, the R2 disc will not play on a R1 DVD player.) However, region locking can be hacked either via software or hardware (which voids your warranty). You can even unlock the region lock capability by doing a little handjive with the DVD's remote control on some DVD players. There's several pages on the web that go into much more detail on region code unlocking, even one that will tell you if the specific DVD player you own has a hack to it.
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