[Charlie]

True... some DVD's do not have the copy protection and you won't get the retrace lines. Usually, the recent movies will. If you happen to already have a DVD burner drive in your PC, you can copy them and leave the copy protection files off. Kinda funny to think though... they put that in there to keep from copying them... however you still can make a copy.

Many of the DVD's we have on board our ship are burned by the second mate. We play them in a cable system we built using several DVD and VHS players. Our player is a Panasonic, and it plays the burned copies just fine.

The mate also made copies of certain movie I wanted. When I brought them home, they played here on my roundie with no lines. I will probably be shopping around for an external burner soon to use here.