User Profile: cathead - Original Trilogy

Post: #249348
Topic: Disabling Auto-Stop?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/249348/action/topic#249348
Time: 3-Oct-2006 10:31 PM

I bought the MWR20V6 unit last week at Walmart. I have noticed similar problem as you regarding the mysterious interruption during VCR->DVD dubbing. All the tapes I am dubbing are 5+ years old and are SLP and SP recordings of broadcasts of MST3K, Duckman, etc. from USA network, Comedy Central, and Scifi channel.

I had no problems whatsoever when I dubbed over 25 SP tapes of MST3K recorded off the Scifi channel. I had a number of interruptions when I tried dubbing ELP tapes. Sometimes it will go for an hour- sometimes 5 minutes with no apparent rhyme or reason. I can back up the tape and try again and it will work beyond the point where it failed the first time. I was idly speculating that maybe there is some kind of bit error counter that triggers the interruptions...

I believe +RW DVDs are the way to go here because you can reclaim the space when it goofs up. Also, you can't delete Titles or divide Titles using the +R DVDs. At least the ones I've been using (Maxell). So there's a lot more flexibility for a little more money.

Unfortunately, I expect this mysterious interruption deal will be a problem when I try to dub my 6-hour SLP MST3K tapes with 3 movies per tape.

I haven't tried any timer recordings yet.

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