I have one CD/DVD player on my main TV. Otherwise, I have a few VCR's on different sets for my kids to watch and my bedroom. I only wish to have something that we can watch on all TV sets, which have a VCR, not DVD. This is for my family personal use, so I don't think I'm breaking any law that I know of at least.

My son is the gifted genius of all this electrical and mechanical stuff. He rerouted, at my request, our whole home stereo system to hook up to the VCR to record DVD movies that can be used anywhere in the house.

The movies were of such poor quality, they were not worth the bother. My question, is this a hook up problem or a built in quirk with DVD's so they cannot be copied into VCR format? The connection was coming from the TV set, not the DVD player.

Is there a way that we can wire this to correctly record a DVD to VCR? We had a problems with clarity and color fade. The sound was fine. The picture went to perfect, to fuzzy color, to no color, back to perfect. Why did this happen?

While the disclaimers on most recorded media claim that "you may not reproduce this for public distribution or sale" they still have encoded commands to distort or totally obliterate the product if recording is attempted. The distortion is predictable and allows them to determine if the copy of a movie is pirated. This may be the cause of the distortions you saw in the earlier attempts. There is an issue of resistence regarding cable length, but I am not sure this is your problem either.

Having said all that, posts about hacking or pirating of any kind are not allowed here so I will close this thread now to prevent anyone from getting into trouble unintentionally by offering links to pirating software.