Hi, Some of you may remember my plight witht he DVD recorder and the transitions being read by it as COPY PROTECT. Well today I hooked up one of these phillips DVD recorders a number of ways and made a few discoveries. 1st yes my tapes all had this problem and even a good TBC didn't remove it. The only thing that took it away was to run the SVHS tape back through the Sony media converter and then into the DVD recorder Firewire. Problem 1 solved. Totally counterintuitive. So now the new plan is to skip the master tape and run from the timeline directly out to this DVD recorder in firewire. But when I plug it in it was all scrambled. For some reason I had to change my sequence setting to NTSC 4:3 from NTSCDV 3:2 in order to make it happy. Maybe it doesnt like the extra pixels on the sides. Jim