[color=#000000][size=5] [size=6] [size=7] [b] I hope you will forgive me for sounding so helpless but at this point I am!
Over the years I have coolected virtually hundreds of VCR movies. I recently purchased a DVD Recorder/Video Cassette Recorder in great hopes of making copies of my VCR movies by putting them on DVDs to greatly free up some space that is now overcrowded.
And then, I find almost all of the movies cannot be copies because of "copyright" codes and such. Can anybody tell me if there is some sort of a "decoder" or something I can buy to override these codes? As you can tell, I am no electronic guru but I just figured that somebody out there MUST have invented such a thing by now cause VCR taping is almost gone out of style.
I deeply appreciate any and all information you can give me to solve this problem! Thank you so very much!

Is that DVD recorder one that is hooked up to your tv? If so I don't see why you can't record a movie playing on vcr to dvd using the dvd recorder. Here is a suggestion for another way to get those videotape recordings onto a DVD. I am doing this myself. Buy yourself a TV Tuner card/video capture card and install into computer. Installation isn't too hard and they are about $50.00 or less or more. Buy yourself a DVD-RW for your computer, again not very expensive aroung $50.00 less or more. If you already have these great. I recommend ATi TV wonder pro because it is about $59.99 and is a TV tuner card/video capture card and it works. I have HP DVD 840i for DVD-RW. Once everything is installed including necessary programs, all you got to do is hook up a vcr to the included connection port and then set it to play on computer via the program and then record it to your computer. Next add the file to record it to DVD using your favorite DVD recording application.

As you know Technology evolves... normal progression from analog to digital over last several decades from LPs, VHS/BETA, 8-track, audio tape to CDS, DVDs. Lots of work to convert movies, but you will never match orig. quality, so might me easier to bite bullet and upgrade to new better format. By the time you upgrade your VHS collection (near VCD quality that is quite sub-standard compared to DVD), Blu-ray, HD and Hi-Def movies will be gaining more popularity.

Yes, there are ways to circumvent this copyright/macrovision protection...using TV Tuner/PVR addon card hooking up through S-video/RCA connections. TV Tool is wonderful program for nvidia cards getting around Macrovision and having dual TV/monitor display on some video cards.

Don't thnk it's worth the effort.. many classic DVD movies go for less than $8.00 so pretty easy to rebuild library. Anyway, that's my opinion.