I needed to vent my frustration to some of my fellow AV enthusiasts. I've spent the last several hours transferring all my old videotapes to DVD connecting an old Sony VHS to my Toshiba RDXS-54 DVR. Most of the tapes worked but some wouldn't, one personal and one very old Billy Joel concert that I was fortunate to get on VHS. I got a message "source content is copy protected. Recording has been terminated automatically." It's times like this that I curse that the executives in the business and, while I completely understand the challenges of piracy, there really isn't much of a big deal transferring VHS quality tapes to DVD for heaven's sake!!! I'm probably stuck having to circumvent this POS decision by our electronics manufacturers by connecting the tape directly to a PC and doing it the hard way. It also makes me want to donate money to the piracy defense fund for kids like the one who broke the macrovision copy code and others who have been able to give the old middle finger to the industry when justified. It's bad enough I need to have 2 DVD players so that I can play all those "Region 2" DVDs...
Thanks for listening. It's just incredibly frustrating.
Thanks for listening. It's just incredibly frustrating.