I have Panasonic Combi Units or external VHS machines + recorder [N+South] Tony on the straight or scart lead system [all the transfer to Hard Drive stuff is a bit beyond me]. My tapes go back to 82! It may be psychological but I find even the roughest recordings can appear "enhanced" when transferred. My experience is that an occasional VHS tape may be protected but not many! The worst one was a Jane Fonda exercise tape [of all things] that someone wanted on DVD recently. I think Jane was really protecting her money in 1990
. None of my usual "workarounds" removed the "cannot copy" message
Dave