{"id":551262,"date":"2007-01-12T07:09:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T07:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551262-out-with-old-tapes.html"},"modified":"2007-01-12T07:09:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T07:09:17","slug":"out-with-old-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551262-out-with-old-tapes.html","title":{"rendered":"Out with old tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The 6,8kg RC185 allows you to copy from VHS to DVD at the touch of a button. I transferred half-a-dozen home movies to DVD without hassle. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The LG185\u2019s DVD component has everything you\u2019d expect in a modern DVD player, including support for the popular DivX video codecs. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">DVD recording formats supported are +\u2013 R, +\u2013 RW and +R DL. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Sadly, using the machine to copy commercial movies is more problematic. I successfully transferred the first movie I tried, but the second refused to copy, saying that the source material was protected using a method called Macrovision. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">I get frustrated when copy controls prevent me from making legitimate backups or copies of material that I have bought. Needless to say, I mumbled a few choice words under my breath about the entertainment industry.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=63522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a pile of home movies on VHS cassettes that are gathering dust? A new combination DVD recorder and video cassette recorder from LG Electronics, the RC185, can help you bring your old tapes into the digital era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}