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Originally posted by Harper
WHOA! This is old school.


Look at the back of your VCR.
There should be the following plugs
AV Video IN
AV Sound Right IN
AV Sound Left IN
AV Video Out
AV Sound Right Out
AV Sound Left Out

Do not bother with your Arial IN and Arial Out. 99% it does not work when you are trying to link 2 VCRs together to copy tapes.

You will need some AV Cables. And the better quality, the better the image.
You will need 2 VCRs. One is a source. The other is the copy.

On the Source VCR, plug the AV cable into your AV Video Out, AV Sound Right Out, AV Sound Left Out.
Put your Orginal VHS Tape into your Source VCR.

On the Source VCR, plug the AV cable into your AV Video Out, AV Sound Right Out, AV Sound Left Out.
Put your Orginal VHS Tape into your Source VCR.

On the Copy VCR, plug the AV cable into your AV Video IN, AV Sound Right IN, AV Sound Left IN
Make sure you have the cables going
AV Video Out --> AV Video In
AV Sound Right Out --> AV Sound Right In
AV Sound Left Out --> AV Sound Left In
Set your Copy VCR to the AV Channel so that it will accept the AV in signals.
Put your Blank VHS Tape into your Copy VCR.

Press Record on your Copy VCR
Press Play on your Source VCR

And then walk away for the duration of the tape.

A few things to note.
1. If you are copying a 60 minute movie, make sure you have enough tape in the Copy VCR. Yes, you can cheat by using long play on the Copy VCR, but long play or extended long play looses a lot of quality.
2. Unless you have a standards converter, you will not be able to change from NTSC to PAL (C-Cam or what ever). If you are after a standards converter, they are hard to find. And expect to pay about AU$600 for one.
3. You can make mutlple copy by chaining VCR together, however the picture quality will go lower the further down the chain. It's not recommended.
Plus it does raise a few eyebrows with the police if they see this.
4. Expect to loose image and sound quality on your copied tape. The only way to reduce this invest in some Gold or Silver AV cables.
5. Do get around Macrovision, you need some thing called a "VIDEO ENHANCER". I now that Jaycar electronics sells these things as kits that you can put together yourself. Otherwise Standard Converters have a habbit of working around Macrovision.
Really old VCRs (currently they would be around about 15 years old now) have this habbit of not picking up the Macrovision Signal.
And cheap VCRs (like your single head VCRs) also have a habit of not picking up Macrovision either. Please note that this bit of knowledge is about 10 years old, I am not sure about the current cheap VCRs.

An expert huh? Thanks, I think I just need to make sure its on the right channel. I will try when I get home. Thanks for your guys help!