My Standalone VHS to DVD Plan

[PurpleDemon]

I just bought a standalone Lite-ON LVW-1101 recorder second hand.

My plan is to back up my old VHS movies to DVD before the tape goes bad. I own about 100-150 titles and plus home movies.

I thought I would run it by anyone with this experience to see how flawed my plan is.

1. I would record onto a DVD-RW+ on standalone.

2. I would transfer from the DVD-RW+ to hard drive (i understand standalones don't record that well of quality, but my PC could read it okay)

3. I would burn the movies to a high quality disk (MCC) with Imgburn.

If this seems like the right track, I have a few questions.

What would be the favored (Program) way to get them on my HDD?

What would be a good brand of DVD-RW+ to accomplish this?

How many tomes can I erase a DVD-RW+?

Am I missing something or is this idea just plain crazy?

Here is info on my player:

http://www.videohelp.com/dvdrecorders.php?DVDnameid=1247&Search=Search&list=1#comments

Any help would be appreciated before I get started.

Thank You

[soup]

The first thing you have to think about is MacroVision, so the first thing I believe you would need is a video stabilizer in between the VCR & DVR. I have never owned or looked in to a DVR, so the rest is up to somebody else.

[PurpleDemon]

The stabilizer I have I used years ago when I backed my VHS to VHS.

Do you think it would work for VHS to DVR?

Also most of these are really old (pre-macro)and are no longer available on VHS or ever been pressed on DVD.
Just trying to protect my investment.

[soup]

Was your's battery or plug in? I have one that actually has a s-video connection . I had a friend change it from 9 volt battery operated to plug in. You would be using RCA connections then, not sure about the quality by the time, if you do get it on to the dvd. If you hook it up VCR/video to stabilizer, stabilizer to DVR, (audio from VCR to DVR), DVR to TV you should be able to see if it will work because with everything thing on it should play through (maybe)?

[PurpleDemon]

9V RCA Jack. However if I need to replace, S-Video seems worth a look.
I originally overlooked that in the beginning.

Thank You Soup once again.

[soup]

No problem, just thinking out loud.

[jm1647]

The LiteOn LVW-5005 standalone DVD recorder has a system firmware hack to remove MV in fw version 098 that works beutifully. I transfered a buncha Disney VHS tapes to DVD for my daughter. I am not aware of a hack that works for the recorder you have now

Edit - I forgot to mention it will backup DVDs that you can't do ripping because of scratches etc. If it plays it gets recorded