_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

Sorry, but... what capture? The D-Theater is digital, so it should be a 1:1 rip - like DVD or BD, not a capture like laserdisc or VHS - hence, two tapes should be (theoretically, apart eventual tape errors) identical... am I wrong?

Well with DVDs and Blu-rays, you can put them into a drive on your computer, break the protection (AACS/BD+) and copy 1 for 1 to your hard drive. DVHS is a little harder. If there is no copy protection you can copy a tape via firewire to your hard drive from the DVHS deck, therefore getting a 1 for 1 copy. Unfortunately, D-Theater D-VHS tapes have copy protection in the form of DTCP. The only way to get the information off is to break the copy protection, which to my knowledge DTCP has not been broken, or capture the output. Older decks only have component output but newer ones have HMDI. I have captured the component plenty of times but now with a new computer I can capture the HDMI.