I mentioned elsewhere that my grandmother recently acquired a Magnavox VCR/DVD+RW combo (Model MWR20V6). I've been using this to dub my favorite movies onto DVD--most of these movies have not had an official DVD release and, indeed, aren't even well-known. Others are old recordings from the 1980s/early 1990s that I want to backup for nostalgia's sake.

But, it turns out the player has one annoying little flaw: Occasionally it will just stop recording, for no reason, and at completely random times. One time it recorded an entire six-hour tape with no problems, but on another six-hour tape, of the exact same brand, it kept stopping every five minutes or so. For these backups of recordings I didn't mind so much--I just rewound the tape a bit and began anew. But recently it happened while I was trying to dub off a VHS movie that wasn't a recording.

Anyway, according to the manual, the dubbing process will automatically cease if the device does not detect an image on the source medium for three minutes. Okay, something's wrong here, because it quite obviously IS detecting images (otherwise there'd be blank spots on the produced DVD, no?) but it keeps auto-stopping anyway. And I've looked all over the setup menus and have seen nothing resembling a "disable auto-stop" function.

So, does anyone who has this exact player, or one similar to it, know how to disable this particular "feature" or otherwise get around it?

Thanks in advance.