Hi to all y'all,
I just bought a Philips 630DV - has a VCR and DVD, with the ability to directly copy from one medium to the other.  The main reason I bought it was to transfer all our VHS tapes - all legally purchased, I must add, and getting pretty old so I really want to save them - and, as you may guess, I found out that they are copy protected.  Searching this (and other) sites, the only solutions I can find are little black boxes and software, but this doesn't solve the problem with a combo VCR-DVD, where there's "nothing in between" (as far as this primitive user is concerned).  Any ideas?
Thanks!

If it can use both halves independently, then you may be able to loop it round outside, using a suitable eliminator

(in reply to StillLearning)