Can you record from Netflix to VHS?
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2023
- I have often wondered if you can record video streaming, such as Netflix, via the scart output of a Huawei DN360T plugged into a standard VHS VCR. Today, I found out.
This video is for entertainment and fact finding purposes, only. I do not condone piracy of any kind. - Наука та технологія
I previously recorded a show from Netflix onto VHS tapes, and it recorded fine. I used a PS3 with a composite output adapter to get it to a VCR. It worked without issue. I think what's more surprising is that when I tried to transfer my Netflix VHS recordings to DVD, there were no copy protection issues, either. It transferred to DVD just fine. One user who reported that the DVD recorder wouldn't record likely detected a different kind of copy protection called CGMS-A. Unlike Macrovision, CGMS-A will allow you to transfer the recording to VHS, but some digital recorders (including DVD units) won't record it. It also won't transfer a VHS recording of a CGMS-A-protected signal. Unlike Macrovision, though, there is no legal requirement for any particular unit to detect that copy protection method and prevent recording. So maybe I just got lucky. Or perhaps, as others have said, people recording shows from streaming to VHS tape isn't the biggest anti-piracy concern anymore compared to people using BitTorrent and other file-sharing sites and apps to share higher quality digital 1080p/4K rips of their streaming content.
Watching stranger things on VHS may actually be a great experience I might say
no its not 4:3
you can easily make it 4:3 also there are 16:3 vcrs and crt's@@idkanymore3382
It would make be whole new style of 80s based.
Yeah. And it would be really cool if Netflix would actually release it on VHS!
Today's kids will never know the flavour of video on 📼 and laserdiscs
I am in the US and tried it with Disney+ and it worked just fine also---using the Simpsons....no sign of protection whatsoever.
I tried it once with a Sky Q Mini Box as they have a composite video output on a 4 pole 3.5mm jack plug. Worked fine on VHS but neither my Sony or Panasonic DVD recorder would record from it. They just gave a copy protect message as soon as I pressed the record button. I think there's a copy protect flag in the signal that the DVD recorders recognise and prevents them from going into record mode but the VHS being older tech doesn't understand it.
Usually many newer devices that have composite output don’t normally have macrovision protection in streaming apps like Netflix (probably because companies don’t care about low quality analog copies of their content, plus most devices that have Netflix today don’t normally have composite). That’s usually dvd that has this protection. Even many newer DVDs, I’ve tested a dvd that came out in 2023 and still has macrovision.
I have found your video because I am trying the exact same experiment with stranger things. When I attempt to record from Netflix onto my VHS, the video does not play. It will record audio just fine, but I assume the program somehow knows I’m trying to record it. I’m flabbergasted that that’s possible, but also because they would care about something that small.
What device were you using? I was using a Huawei DN360T, which is quite basic….
Used to you could back in the day on Xbox 360 PS3 Nintendo Wii and Even Blu ray Player with Composit input.
I'm sure people recording to vhs is the least of their worries, seeing as how a torrent will give you a 1080p rip with only a few gigabytes is more of their concern.
This is the best idea ever used for retro people and when recording there is no macrovision encoding.
Macrovision... is why I loved Betamax!
some newer devices with SCART / Composite (such as roku express with composite) don’t have macrovision protection, so you won’t be affected by macrovision scrambling.
@jessemiller2335 how do I hook up my fire stick or roku to and hdmitoav converter?
I don't think companies really care about analogue standard definition recordings especially on VHS, it would also need macrovision licencing. I usually find macrovision shows up even on the display as you click record going from past experience
Imagine, they have a whole VHS and Betamax piracy department, just waiting for someone to try!! :)
I recorded the first 10 seasons or so of South Park onto tape around 2010 from Netflix
my only tv is one from 1984 and I use a vcr and a ps3 and technically I could record gameplay or youtube or anything
There you go, that's how you convert it to physical media, so you can keep it and Netflix won't take it down or whatever.
Netflix should release stranger things to VHS.
I think my Sanyo VCR has only two Rca Audio (white, red), and no Yellow RCA, but a SCART. Will it work if I record from Laptop to VHS?
It has, by the sounds of it, two separate audio out connectors to allow you to connect the vcr to an amplifier. These will be output only. For the laptop, you’ll need a way to convert HDMI to composite, such adapters do exist and will allow you to record content from your laptop to an older device. For the scart, you’ll need a scart to composite adapter that allows you to switch between output and input. Then, you should be set.
You have to realize they didn’t put any copy protection on it because nobody except for a few people use vhs anymore
Guess I hate people then. Especially when there are digital VHS that have higher quality than regular VHS and DVDs and some BluRays in some instances.
But your Netflix recording will have their annoying display over the beginning.
Id expect the same of a dvd recorder too
If any of the stuff that you recorded had Macrovision copy protection, you would have seen it right away on the TV.
Exactly, it would resemble a loss of the capstan server sync….
I did for fun and I have a full episode of stranger things on vhs with subs in Spanish and recorded in PAL, it is not piracy if you don't sell it :)
Actually, every time you watch an episode on from your recorded VHS tape instead of streaming said episode, you are really denying the people, who worked to produce that episode - directors, cast, crew, etc - from getting their (meager) residuals.
Every time you start a stream, the streaming service registers that playback and then has to pay out some agreed upon amount to the people included in the production.
Watching that on your VHS-copy instead, you are denying hard-working people to make money off their work.
@@pHD77 womp womp 🏴☠
@@mostarac94Womp all you want. When people behind a production don't get paid, they have less incentive to produce new proper shows and you'll get less quality content.
@@pHD77 😭😭 lol
People like myself are recording movies offline putting them on vhs tapes everything proven what ever the internet does gos on the vhs tape itself
The problem is; with everything now being on-demand, what would the applications be?
No application at all, but.....it is a bit of fun.
Great video don't get your hopes up that locking up problem will never happen at all I have done that before and 4 over 4 years ago I was recording movies from internet now I have stop recording movies from the internet y it was locked up every 10 minutes and and what internet does it went on the vhs tape itself
Is the vcr player connected to the youview box or to the tv?
The Youview box is connected to the VCR via one SCART input (AV2 in the case of this Sony VCR). AV1 (Output) is connected to the SCART connector on the TV set. You can also use the RF out in the absence of composite or SCART inputs on your respective set.
Amazing! 😂
Of you course you can. DRM does nothing to protect against analouge recording.
now i am curious if this works with dvhs with 1080i
If you have a DVHS deck, give it a go and let us know....also, I would be rather jealous.....they're a rare beast.
@@JCTsFascinatingHobbies i only found out about it a couple days ago and i didn't even KNOW that a HD VHS even EXISTED at all. It was around from 1997 to 2006 it only died when the blu ray came out
its funny because now people are starting to talk of a VHS revival, and i got thinking this is the PERFECT time to reintroduce the DVHS since its more or less the same quality as a bluray. And like all tech its backwards compatible with regular VHS.
it just seems to came out at the wrong time
Bro I have a vcr tv how do you do that I gotta know man so hit me up when you read this!!!
Reminds of the time i wished i could go back in time to the year 1986 and tell my 14 year old self after having figured out the right combination of the RCA leads and were to put them. I never understood why i could copy most videos films Ok but anything by CBS Fox and Warner Brothers was a no no . Stupid flashing on and off and then black and white then colour then more flashing. LOL it was Macrovision. And it would be at least another 20 years before i would finally get my answer. So yes for my copy of Ferris Bueller's Day Off but a big fat NO for my copy of Aliens and The Lost Boys. He he good times. Oh and i would also tell myself to get one of those little TBC boxes that disabled the Macrovision so i could of had all the films i ever wanted in my personal collection.
I tried this with all the white equipment doesn’t work
Your Amstrad TV is a Samsung in disguise :)
I tried this it doesn’t work
It probably is thinking like who in their right mind why use vhs's to record stuff😂
Exactly, Betamax is where it’s at 😂
Why is mine not? My dad says it is becuse it is a app
since vhs is analog there is no problem doing this but you are going from 720p or 1080p to 425 lines..... But no problem since all copy protection is removed since it is analog.
People like myself are fixing broken vhs tapes with Scotch tape it starts playing again with out no problem's
Would be good to filter out the CRT high pitched whine in editing, it's quite annoying with headphones.
Is that something that happens with all CRTs or only when something's old and broken?
@@Precel42 CRTs all produce a high pitched whine when on, but you have to have good enough hearing to be able to notice it.
@@caromac_ Sucks to be me then lol
I'm impressed you can hear that, you must be quite young. I'm 44 in a few days, and used to be able to pick up the high frequency EHT tone, but, I no longer can.
@@JCTsFascinatingHobbies I'm 21, bit surprised I still hear it. I'm pretty sensitive to it, used to drive me nuts when I was younger.
You need dvhs
If I could find a deck at a reasonable price, I would have one.