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Summary: Thank you!
Review: Finally! This unit allows me to make safety copies (for personal use-nothing illegal here) of my VHS and DVD library. It effectively overrides copy protection, allowing me to record commercially produced VHS and DVD titles to my VCR and DVD recorder!
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Summary: Does the job!
Review: Finally, I can make backup/safety copies of my copy-protected VHS and DVD movies! (For personal use, nothing illegal folks!!) This little box consistently overrides copy protection. I can make DVD copies to VHS or DVD-R/+R, or VHS copies to DVD-R/+R. This will ensure preservation of my library! Highly recommended!
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Summary: Excellent Little Box
Review: I have been trying to find a way that I could make VHS tapes from DVDs for a while, and this baby does the trick. It is completly legal to duplicate a movie for home viewing even if that movie was only rented by you and not purchaced. This way I can rent DVDs via netflix, and then have a copy of them for my own enjoyment.
A cool little device.P.S I am not a criminal nor do I plan to sell any of the tapes that I make.
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Summary: Didn't help me
Review: I was trying to make copies of the video tapes I already own on to DVD's so my kids could watch them in the car on a portable DVD player. I have a Panasonic E30 DVD recorder. This box didn't help record anything on the E30.
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Summary: A waste of time and money
Review: If you are considering purchasing this thing to make copies of commercially made VHS tapes to DVD, don't waste your time or your money because it is essentially useless for that purpose, the resulting copies are horrible, grainy, and with jittery lines in the picture, etc. Some people say this thing will remove the Macrovision protection which is responsible for the wavy lines and such, but forget it, it will not, at least not to any kind of acceptable degree. As far as I know it is legal to make a backup copy of original tapes that you own, for your own personal use under the "fair use" provision, just as you can make an archival copy of computer software, as long as it is for your own use, and not to sell etc. The only reason I gave this thing 2 stars is that it might prove useful for transferring home videos to DVD although I have not tried that yet.
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Summary: Only copy your own stuff
Review: This decoder comes with a warning label that it is unlawful to use it to copy VHS tapes that are copyrighted, but the warning is wasted because they have manufactured it so as not to work anyway. This is a useless device. Mine is in the trash.
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Summary: Useless - buy an old one on ebay
Review: This decoder comes with a warning label that it is unlawful to use it to copy VHS tapes that are copyrighted, but the warning is wasted because they have manufactured it so as not to work anyway. This is a useless device. Mine is in the trash.
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Summary: Copies, but not perfect copies
Review: This is a good product, but be warned: despite the company's claims (not repeated on Amazon's page), it doesn't make a perfect copy of every tape or DVD. When I used the Video Copymaster to record (onto VHS) my DVD of Bridget Jones's Diary, the finished tape had several horizontal lines running the picture. I wrote to the manufacturer and got this response: "Sounds like a macro-vision [i.e., copy protection] problem. Our products do not remove the copy guard. It's is [sic] still present, so you may experience some problems. Depending on your devices and the release of the tape." The company's website (http://www.simacorp.com/) claims that the Copymaster "[m]akes perfect copies of any video automatically." Replace the word "perfect" with "watchable" and that sentence becomes true. As things are, because of the company's false advertising, I give it only three stars out of five.
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Summary: Only copy your own stuff
Review: To electronics fan from San Francisco, what you are doing IS illegal. You can only make one copy of a DVD that you own. Copying DVDs from Netflix is illegal - it doesn't matter if you never sell them or never watch them, it's a violation of the Copyright Act.
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