The device can fully recommend it can easily play all what you wish for, even when shooting no desire remains open and visually is the recorder also a treat. Who is surprised that you can not copy old VHS cassettes Original doing just sorry. That was already so before the DVD was invented. On most VHS cassettes Macrovision copy protection was used. Sorry, but as a brand manufacturer I would not expose myself to a lawsuit flurry of VHS rightsholders.