Okay, i’ve always wanted to do what you guys are doing on restorations. But I have several problems for my first steps, one is I have the vhs ‘matted’ widescreen versions (Special letterbox collectors edition, the one with the hologram sticker on the front), which means the resolution even for vhs is exceptionally low. The nice thing is I can still watch these babies, but still can tell the degradation of the tapes which are almost/around 10 years old. Secondly, is copy protection. In fact on ANH it has the old style copy protection (where the brightness goes up and down, and generally makes the picture look messed up), and then ESB and ROTJ have the newer protection. Really i’m only just guessing, my capture card would record video from ANH but the picture is all messed up and ESB and ROTJ just won’t allow being recorded. Anyhoo, I can even think of restoring them, if I can’t even back them up. I’m a little uneasy about asking about how to get around the copy protection on these tapes, given the fact that it’s a legal gray area (or maybe it’s not and i just don’t know the laws), but suffice it to say, I have purchased these, and they’re getting old. Can anyone give me any advice or help?

Thanks,
Keith W. II
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