I just purchased a Panasonic DMR-E30 recorder and I'm trying to find out how to get by the copy protection that is on most DVD's. Any information will help.

Did you try searching? Because this has been covered already in several posts.

Use dvdshrink if your backing up movies

We are talking about a standalone recorder here though... However exactly are they going to run DVDShrink?

Easy, put the disk in the panasonic, open dvdshrink, let the dvd burner do the encoding, save to hd and copy to disk. I never ran into a problem with any copy righted dvd movies even ones that just hit the shelves.

I'm confused here Mr Snatcher. How do you use dvdshrink with a standalone recorder like the one GhstDgg has?

Mr Snatcher : What theyre trying to tell you is that the Panasonic E30 sits under your TV the same as a cable box, VCR its a STANDALONE product that is not attached to the PC. Unless you've found some magical way of using it with this :clown:

GhstDgg0212 : What your looking for is a macrobuster (gametech.co.uk/macro.htm)

MacroBuster adapter allows you to watch films from any DVD player, Video recorder, Digital TV or Pay per view channel through your video using the scart or phono-output of the device and the scart-input on your video recorder

oooooooopppppppps!!! sorry, I didnt mean to give out any wrong advise, thought it went in the pc. I just kicked my self in the *** for that. Again my apologies.

lol that was amusing :laugh:

Cal_G