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by hal 9000

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Professional Sony DVD Recorders.

I currently have 4 DVDs from the AU Veterans Affairs Department that the owner wants copied for her children as they cover the experiences of he husbands War Records and everything relating to his Military Service.

They come up as titled as [b]Sony_DVD_Recorder_Volume[/b] but so far I've been unable to make working copies of them. I've had the Burnt DVD Professionally cleaned and while they play OK in a DVD player I've had no joy in making copies of these disc's and to make matters worse the Department involved has run out of Funds to make any more so these 4 DVDs are irreplaceable for the time being at least.

I've tried a straight Disc to Disc Copy under both Nero and Easy CD Creator, Used DVD Shrink with Any DVD to unencrypt any encryption on the disc and then on another installation of XP I've used DVD Shrink with DVD 43 as an unencryption tool.

When neither of those worked I tried 123 Studio DVD Copier and 321 DVD Copier with and without encryption removal tools working.

According to the Copyright sticker on the back of these cases they are copyrighted and you can only copy them for personal use but not for sale or distribution but as they only cover one persons Military Service they would be useless to anyone else anyway other than immediate family.

[b]Anyone have a solution for this one?[/b]

Col

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by hal 9000

According to the Department involved they are freely able to be copied and they have no idea why I'm running into problems here but then again the woman that I spoke to wasn't a Tech either so I'm not placing too much on her information.

The originals have been burnt onto Verbatim -R DVD with stickers applied to the backs of the DVDs which are still fully intact with the Disc's.

by rob miners

Try using DVD Decrypter 3.2.3.0
I haven't had one fail as yet.
It is freeware if you can't find a copy let me know.
Rob

by hal 9000

The finial answer was to download a trial copy of DVD neXt Copy the latest version of DVD X Copy which allowed the DVD to be saved to HDD and renamed to [b]Sony_DVD_Recorder_Volume_1[/b] 2 or whatever and this worked so I've now managed to copy these DVDs. The program works so well that I'm going to buy a copy as it's much better than the older version of DVD X Copy. ;\

Thanks for your help on this one everyone.

by electricdragon

Hi Hal-
I have 1 possible answer, I hope it works for ya, as helping someone that spends so much time helping others would give me a happy. :-)
Try replay screencast, its only $30, and you can d/l a demo, the demo will only get you 1 minute of recording, but at least you can find out if it will do the job before you fork out the cash.
[url]http://www.applian.com/replay-screencast/[/url]
You'll need to recode in order to reproduce it in DVD format, I use VSO's convertXtoDVD as it seems to minimize quality loss fairly well. Normally I would almost guarantee this for a fix, but I honestly have never come across a sony dvd recorder volume, so I guess the only way is to try it and see, at least with the demo it won't cost you anything to find out.

HTH
E.D.
p.s. I've never tried BBcode on TR so that url might look funny, lol.

by electricdragon

p.s.s. I think Nero recode can handle .wmv's so you could probably skip the ConvertXtodvd, save a few bucks if the quality is good enough.
E.D.

by hal 9000

The finial answer was to download a trial copy of DVD neXt Copy the latest version of DVD X Copy which allowed the DVD to be saved to HDD and renamed to [b]Sony_DVD_Recorder_Volume_1[/b] 2 or whatever and this worked so I've now managed to copy these DVDs. The program works so well that I'm going to buy a copy as it's much better than the older version of DVD X Copy. ;\

Thanks for your help on this one everyone.

by wil

Try using DVD X Copy, this is a really good DVD decryptor/decoder/burner software. The company no longer exists due to being sued by Hollywood. You will have to find the software on the web, but it will surely work.

by hal 9000

The finial answer was to download a trial copy of DVD neXt Copy the latest version of DVD X Copy which allowed the DVD to be saved to HDD and renamed to [b]Sony_DVD_Recorder_Volume_1[/b] 2 or whatever and this worked so I've now managed to copy these DVDs. The program works so well that I'm going to buy a copy as it's much better than the older version of DVD X Copy. ;\

Thanks for your help on this one everyone.

by zlitocook

I have DVD Xcopy complete, let me know if you want to try it? I also have a registered copy of clone DVD, I can copy most if not all CD's and DVD's some are a little harder to copy but with time they all can be copied.
I have bought most of my programs before they were removed for whatever reason and I only use them to help people with problems or non-for profit companies.
I have had to convert a bunch of programs, video's and other things to what the company that I was working for to what they need.

by hal 9000

The finial answer was to download a trial copy of DVD neXt Copy the latest version of DVD X Copy which allowed the DVD to be saved to HDD and renamed to [b]Sony_DVD_Recorder_Volume_1[/b] 2 or whatever and this worked so I've now managed to copy these DVDs. The program works so well that I'm going to buy a copy as it's much better than the older version of DVD X Copy. ;\

Thanks for your help on this one everyone.

by b_pope

Check your services under Admin Tools & look for any DRM services running or anything that looks out the ordinary.

by hal 9000

The finial answer was to download a trial copy of DVD neXt Copy the latest version of DVD X Copy which allowed the DVD to be saved to HDD and renamed to [b]Sony_DVD_Recorder_Volume_1[/b] 2 or whatever and this worked so I've now managed to copy these DVDs. The program works so well that I'm going to buy a copy as it's much better than the older version of DVD X Copy. ;\

Thanks for your help on this one everyone.

by hal 9000

Silly me 321 Studios is called DVD X Copy and in an attempt to get it to work I've reinstalled it but as it requires Internet Activation it is no longer possible to activate it so mark one up for the stupidity of doing a clean install and reload on me. :(

So far none of the other suggestions have done any good as every time I attempt to make a copy they fall into a heap and fail to run even though I can copy the data to a HDD and then back to a Blank DVD which carries the same File Layout and proprieties but of course they don't work in a DVD player.

They also insist that there is [b]No Copy Protection[/b] involved on them when I transfer the data across to a HDD through 123 Copy DVD ver 3 or any other programs.

Here I am now leaning to the idea that I need the Rescue part of DVD X Copy to get this done so if anyone has any ideas on how I can get it activated I'm all ears.

Col

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