Can you video DVD's??

[.: Anna :.]

Well I just thought... cos when summat is playing on the TV u can tape it, so wen a DVD is playing on the screen can u tape that too?? how do u do it? cos what channel shud the dvd be set on to? or doesnt it wk like that?? (u know how video can b channel 0....)
My sis is moving 2 Edinburgh, and I'm moving 2 London... I won't b able 2 borrow her stuff easy :( so I need ma own copy of everything :p
(cant just copy the dvd cos I dont hav DVD rewriter :p )
also u know wen u copy from video onto video... how do u do it? u gotta wire the video machines 2gether?? :banghead:

[juvenile_mullah]

Well I just thought... cos when summat is playing on the TV u can tape it, so wen a DVD is playing on the screen can u tape that too?? how do u do it? cos what channel shud the dvd be set on to? or doesnt it wk like that?? (u know how video can b channel 0....)
My sis is moving 2 Edinburgh, and I'm moving 2 London... I won't b able 2 borrow her stuff easy :( so I need ma own copy of everything :p
(cant just copy the dvd cos I dont hav DVD rewriter :p )
also u know wen u copy from video onto video... how do u do it? u gotta wire the video machines 2gether?? :banghead:

yes u can!

just connect ur dvd scart-lead to ur video recorder.
put ur video to the extention channel to it picks up the dvd.

press record :up:

[Khuzamah]

yes u can!

just connect ur dvd scart-lead to ur video recorder.
put ur video to the extention channel to it picks up the dvd.

press record :up:

woohoo!! excellent :D so whats an extension channel? lol
remember I am pretty thick wen it comes 2 technology :banghead:
but it doesnt sound tooooooo hard! :D yay!

[juvenile_mullah]

woohoo!! excellent :D so whats an extension channel? lol
remember I am pretty thick wen it comes 2 technology :banghead:
but it doesnt sound tooooooo hard! :D yay!

an extension channel > well a girlie guide wud be b4 channel 1 (or bbc) setting on ur video u go back a channel and u shud see ur extension channels. These depending on the age and brand of ur video will appear as channel AV1.. AV2 etc or EXT1 or EXT2......

one of these will be the extension channel u plugged in ur dvd scart lead too.

On older videos (eg the 1980s/90s) there maybe a extension switch instead.

Copying video to video is the same u just need buy a double scart lead - pls consult ur nearest Argos catalogue for further details.

[seven]

alternatively... get married... let the hubby sort it out :D

[Mary Carol]

alternatively... get married... let the hubby sort it out :D

Is that "Hubby" software or hardware? :scratch:

[Khuzamah]

alternatively... get married... let the hubby sort it out :D

a much more appealing suggestion.... but since I dont think thats gna happen with in the next couple of months, I will have 2 try and sort it out myself :(

juvenille mullah... lol im sorry, but that explanation was still too complecated for me :banghead:

im a bit :confused: cos I've never heard of av1 av2 etc... on my tv, the video channel is set to 0 i think, so i have 2 find out wat channel the dvd is by pressing channel 1 on the video and going back?!

and then how do I set my video 2 tape channels like ext and av or whatever, I only know how 2 do number channels like 1,2,3 etc??

lol u may hav 2 explain very slowly in words of no more than 2 syllables and no technical phrases :banghead:

[Mary Carol]

anna...try reading the manual that came with your player. Sometimes they are written so that even I can understand them. :)

[Khuzamah]

anna...try reading the manual that came with your player. Sometimes they are written so that even I can understand them. :)

lol ohhh not a bad idea!! I'll make my sister do it wen she comes back from town :D (she is cleverer than me :p )

[ze leetle elper]

words of no more than 2 syllables

LOL. :nuts:

[Khuzamah]

hey how do you plug the scart lead in then? because my sister said it's already plugged into the dvd, so do i have to take it out and plug into the video???

also... my video only has the channels 1-8... or so it seems?

[baba]

If your VCR has a SCART input socket, you can connect your DVD player directly to your VCR, and then connect your TV to the VCR - thereby viewing the DVD on your TV via the VCR, which will be recording it.

If it doesn't have a SCART input, you will have to use the AV outputs on the back of your DVD player, and connect them to the AV inputs on the back of your VCR. AV stands for audio-video, and there will be usually be one wire for video and one/two wires for audio, and you will need to connect the respective sockets on the back of your DVD and VCR to each other (they will be colour-coded).

Hope I've made sense (I am so bad at explaining this kinda stuff :( )

Bear in mind that copying may not work if the DVD has copy protection (a.k.a. "macrovision") enabled. Some DVD players can disable macrovision, some can't (depends on the make and model).

[ze leetle elper]

If your VCR has a SCART input socket, you can connect your DVD player directly to your VCR, and then connect your TV to the VCR - thereby viewing the DVD on your TV via the VCR, which will be recording it.

If it doesn't have a SCART input, you will have to use the AV outputs on the back of your DVD player, and connect them to the AV inputs on the back of your VCR. AV stands for audio-video, and there will be usually be one wire for video and one/two wires for audio, and you will need to connect the respective sockets on the back of your DVD and VCR to each other (they will be colour-coded)
And once more in English please. :)

[typical asian]

And once more in English please. :)
is very simple, i use this for bollywood movie all the time

get white wire, plug it in
get red wire, plug it in
get yellow wire, plug it in

and "bob is your uncle"

gilli danda

[ze leetle elper]

I don't have an uncle called Bob. :D

[seven]

draw a picture dude

[Mary Carol]

draw a picture dude

Here's a schematic I am getting to know:

http://www.afn.org/~alplatt/tube.html

'Fraid it won't help anna with her DVD though.

[Khuzamah]

If your VCR has a SCART input socket, you can connect your DVD player directly to your VCR, and then connect your TV to the VCR - thereby viewing the DVD on your TV via the VCR, which will be recording it.

If it doesn't have a SCART input, you will have to use the AV outputs on the back of your DVD player, and connect them to the AV inputs on the back of your VCR. AV stands for audio-video, and there will be usually be one wire for video and one/two wires for audio, and you will need to connect the respective sockets on the back of your DVD and VCR to each other (they will be colour-coded).

Hope I've made sense (I am so bad at explaining this kinda stuff :( )

Bear in mind that copying may not work if the DVD has copy protection (a.k.a. "macrovision") enabled. Some DVD players can disable macrovision, some can't (depends on the make and model).

well if I tell u the make and model... can u tell me if its got the macrothingy? so i know whether 2 bother with all the AV scart bla bla bla stuff??

[baba]

well if I tell u the make and model... can u tell me if its got the macrothingy? so i know whether 2 bother with all the AV scart bla bla bla stuff??
Okay inshaAllah. By the way, Typical Asian's AV cable instructions were spot on lol :)

[.: Anna :.]

Okay inshaAllah. By the way, Typical Asian's AV cable instructions were spot on lol :)but he didnt tell me where 2 plug all the colour wires into? :confused:

anyway..... *going 2 look @ dvd player*....

well it says TE 118A on it? :scratch: I dunno what brand name it is?

[baba]

The sockets should be colour-coded too.

Look around the back, the brand name should be there somewhere, if it isn't on the front.

[Khuzamah]

The sockets should be colour-coded too.

Look around the back, the brand name should be there somewhere, if it isn't on the front.

lol i had a look, but i cudnt see it... :banghead:
ahh i mite just give up lol, its 2 :confused: for me...
I shud probly just get married n let ma hubby take control of these things :p :banghead: