Video One Publications

Information you need to know BEFORE you buy!

There are two types of DVD Recorder’s. The first is DVD-, (minus), the second is DVD+, (plus). The difference is the DVD– will play on just about any other DVD Player and the DVD+ on very few other DVD Player’s. I get a lot of returns on the DVD+, (which is usually cheaper to buy). DVD+ is ok IF you do not send a copy to someone else.

The next thing people try to record with a DVD Recorder and have problems is transferring VHS tapes, (god forbid if you still have BETA), and find the colors going in and out or it won’t record at all.DVD Recorders are fine for home stuff, (recording of TV or home movies). Pre-recorded movies are encoded with Macrovision and are illegal to copy under Title 17, 501-506. There’s a $250.000 fine and/or 5 years imprison or both. The next time you watch a movie LOOK at the warning in the front of the movie. I get customers day end and day out that get mad at ME because they buy a VHS or DVD movie and think they have a right to make as many movies as they like and actually believe they have that right. I guess they are not visiting the planet Earth for long. Sorry about that but I do get tired of people getting mad at me or thinking that I’m the idiot. Enough said.

The next thing is the VHS/DVD Recorder Combo’s. I do not recommend these for the obvious reasons of if you have a universal remote on your TV they won’t work with Combo units, and if one, (VHS or DVD) is broken and in the shop you aren’t recording  anything.

DOC’S RECOMMENDATIONS

If you are buying a DVD Recorder get a single DVD-R/-RW one so your universal remote would work, (maybe not everything but most stuff) and DVD– so you can better share with family and friends.

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