This article is from the DVD Formats FAQ, by jtfrog@usa.net (Jim Taylor) with numerous contributions by others.
Why in the world would you want to degrade DVD's beautiful digital picture
by copying it to analog tape? Especially since you lose the interactive
menus and other nice features.
If you really want to do this, hook the audio/video outputs of the TV
player to the audio/video inputs of your VCR, then record the disc to tape.
You'll discover that most of the time the resulting tape is garbled and
unwatchable. This is because of the Macrovision feature designed to prevent
you from doing this. See 1.11.
 
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