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I was recently on a television newscast. Using a Magnavox VCR/DVD recorder
that I purchased at Wal-Mart, I recorded the news directly from the cable TV
line onto a blank DVD. I played back the DVD in the Magnavox and verified
that everything successfully recorded. I then plugged the DVD into my
computer's DVD drive and played the DVD on the computer and it played just
fine with Windows Media Player. My intention is to make copies of the DVD to
send to family. But, when I attempt to copy and paste the contents of the
DVD onto the computer's hard drive nothing happens. Can someone put me on
the right track to doing this? Thank you.

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>I was recently on a television newscast. Using a Magnavox VCR/DVD recorder
> that I purchased at Wal-Mart, I recorded the news directly from the cable
> TV
> line onto a blank DVD. I played back the DVD in the Magnavox and verified
> that everything successfully recorded. I then plugged the DVD into my
> computer's DVD drive and played the DVD on the computer and it played just
> fine with Windows Media Player. My intention is to make copies of the DVD
> to
> send to family. But, when I attempt to copy and paste the contents of the
> DVD onto the computer's hard drive nothing happens. Can someone put me on
> the right track to doing this? Thank you.
>

Hi,
(a) There are many programs that can copy a DVD on to another DVD.
I use Nero, but there are some freeware DVD copy programs at this location
http://www.dirfile.com/freeware/copy-dvd.htm

(b) A common problem when recording TV to a DVD is the failure to finalise
the disc. Search through the menu on your VCR/DVD recorder to find the steps
to finalise a disc so that it can be copied across to a computer or used on
a completely different DVD player.

I like Roxio..
There are also gadjets out there to eliminate copyguard..


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