Sony RDRGX315 DVD Recorder
making copies
Originally purchased another Sony DVD recorder. Nothing worked. <br />Bought the RDRGX315. It made acceptable DVDs of twenty-year old VHS tapes. Now, when I go to make copies of those DVDs for the family, MY COPIES are copy-protected. They can't be stored on my hard-drives. I can't even make a copy when they are played on another DVD player, back to the GX 315. The DVDs do not have standard VIDEO_TS files, and neither Windows-XP, nor OS-X  can find valid files to make copies. Eventually, I had to buy a European copy-cracking utility ( I know it's illegal) to enable me to make copies of my own disks. I should have known I had a problem when the DVD I made for the family of the dead Marine said they could not play it.