Question:
Hope someone can help. I need to transfer some video clips from DVD to VHS for a conference paper I am giving next weekend. I am using a Toshiba 2109 DVD player modified by techtronics with macrovision disabled. Hooked it up to a VHS via a scart lead. Works pretty well, but I only get a black and white picture. Is it possible that the scart is not plugged in quite right (I am having trouble accessing the back of the dvd player due to the furniture etc.)? Or is there some more significant problem I need to work around?
Any advice gratefully received
Stevie
Not quite sure if this is legal.
Your video can't take an NTSC input (different to playback).
Sounds to me like your trying to copy a R1 NTSC DVD and as we all know different TV standards.
1. Tosh players can only output PAL 60hz
2. you will need a Digital standards convetor to copy R1 NTSC DVD's around £300
3. You could always buy 1 of the growing army of cheap sub £100 DVD players that do the 60hz to 50hz conversion for you.
THX
hi people - thanks for the replies.
It's definitely a Region 2 disc (it's clips from Buffy seasons 2 & 4). I know it's not strictly legal, but I do need to put the clips onto VHS for presentation as part of a conference paper. Animated menus are all fine and dandy, but if you want to show a couple of clips from different shows on DVD, it's a real pain.
I may make do with b&w if I have to, but it's not nearly as good when Big Blue (The Judge) explodes.
:)
Would a chipped Tosh be outputting a region 2 disc in NTSC format to the VHS player? Excuse my ignorance...
Incidentally, if my story sounds fishy, go here
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~r036/BtVS_programme.htm
and you'll find me (look for Simkin) ;)
Hi Stevie
No your player should do a perfect vhs copy of a R2 DVD
THX:)
Thanks, THX. I will give it another try tomorrow.
Stevie
Make sure you haven't set the scart output to s-video. :)
Now that's a possibility.... do I check that on the dvd menu?
with apologies again for technical cluelessness...
Stevie:o
Thanks, Ralph. That solved the problem - just needed to set the output from s-video to video on the dvd menu
thanks again!
Stevie
Any advice gratefully received
Stevie
Answers:
Not quite sure if this is legal.
Your video can't take an NTSC input (different to playback).
Answers:
Sounds to me like your trying to copy a R1 NTSC DVD and as we all know different TV standards.
1. Tosh players can only output PAL 60hz
2. you will need a Digital standards convetor to copy R1 NTSC DVD's around £300
3. You could always buy 1 of the growing army of cheap sub £100 DVD players that do the 60hz to 50hz conversion for you.
THX
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hi people - thanks for the replies.
It's definitely a Region 2 disc (it's clips from Buffy seasons 2 & 4). I know it's not strictly legal, but I do need to put the clips onto VHS for presentation as part of a conference paper. Animated menus are all fine and dandy, but if you want to show a couple of clips from different shows on DVD, it's a real pain.
I may make do with b&w if I have to, but it's not nearly as good when Big Blue (The Judge) explodes.
:)
Would a chipped Tosh be outputting a region 2 disc in NTSC format to the VHS player? Excuse my ignorance...
Incidentally, if my story sounds fishy, go here
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~r036/BtVS_programme.htm
and you'll find me (look for Simkin) ;)
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Hi Stevie
No your player should do a perfect vhs copy of a R2 DVD
THX:)
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Thanks, THX. I will give it another try tomorrow.
Stevie
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Make sure you haven't set the scart output to s-video. :)
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Now that's a possibility.... do I check that on the dvd menu?
with apologies again for technical cluelessness...
Stevie:o
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Thanks, Ralph. That solved the problem - just needed to set the output from s-video to video on the dvd menu
thanks again!
Stevie
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