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19th December 2004, 19:24
I bought a Dazzle 150 with Pinnacle Studio 9 in order to transfer my small (and aging) VHS collection of home movies (themselves transfers of old 8MM) and taped TV progrmas to DVD. After 3 weeks of out-of-sync problems (their forum is full of others having this same problem going back to the beginning of 2004), I gave up and returned the product.
Co-incidently, my stand-alone DVD player of a few years died the week after I returned the Dazzle. I replaced it with a Lite-On DVD player/burner thinking that this would be a way of backup up those old VHS's. It works fine. I can even burn DVDs directly from my cable TV signal.
So, I thought I would attack a set of tapes I have from the 80s. They are commercially produced and will never be re-recorded on DVD. No luck. The DVD burner flagged them as non-copyable.
So, I bought a Sima "Copy This" #CT-1 from Microcenter that I was told would by-pass this restriction. There is some confusion on my part as to whether I should have bought the CT-1 ($50) or their CT-2 ($100) because there is no real description of the differences between the two so I went with the cheaper one. Even the Sima site is not too clear on the differences
It works find and by-passes the copy restriction but I do get nose at the top of the screen. I don't know if this is a problem the more expensive item would address of if it is a general problem.
Is there is a way to get rid of this? The burner produces VOB files. I have DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink and Nero 6. I'm running XP Home with, unfortunaely from what I'm told, a 1.2Gh Celeron.
Thanks so much in advance,
Terry
PS> I do love this site. I only with I had more expertise to fully participate in helping to answer some of the questions I see.
Co-incidently, my stand-alone DVD player of a few years died the week after I returned the Dazzle. I replaced it with a Lite-On DVD player/burner thinking that this would be a way of backup up those old VHS's. It works fine. I can even burn DVDs directly from my cable TV signal.
So, I thought I would attack a set of tapes I have from the 80s. They are commercially produced and will never be re-recorded on DVD. No luck. The DVD burner flagged them as non-copyable.
So, I bought a Sima "Copy This" #CT-1 from Microcenter that I was told would by-pass this restriction. There is some confusion on my part as to whether I should have bought the CT-1 ($50) or their CT-2 ($100) because there is no real description of the differences between the two so I went with the cheaper one. Even the Sima site is not too clear on the differences
It works find and by-passes the copy restriction but I do get nose at the top of the screen. I don't know if this is a problem the more expensive item would address of if it is a general problem.
Is there is a way to get rid of this? The burner produces VOB files. I have DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink and Nero 6. I'm running XP Home with, unfortunaely from what I'm told, a 1.2Gh Celeron.
Thanks so much in advance,
Terry
PS> I do love this site. I only with I had more expertise to fully participate in helping to answer some of the questions I see.