copying dvds on an SA recorder

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copying dvds on an SA recorder

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is the dvd quality reduced when copying dvds on an SA?

a guy just told me that he's done burning the stuff I asked for on his Sa burner. didn't even enter my head to aks what he's burning on.
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of course there is a reduced quality, there is a lose... there is a re-encoding.
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that's too bad, the guy has a 1st gen of the hampton '97 show (the one circulating is a 3rd gen)
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why there is a loss?
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Greystoke wrote: that's too bad, the guy has a 1st gen of the hampton '97 show (the one circulating is a 3rd gen)
you mean VHS 1st gen to a DVD with a SA recorder?.... i understand DVD copy to DVD with an standalone
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yes, I was talking about dvd to dvd copying
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I believe there shouldn't be any quality loss.

I was confused also, but if someone wrote there's a loss then I thought ok, maybe it is lol.
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Ofcourse there is quality loss!
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Krzych wrote: I believe there shouldn't be any quality loss.

I was confused also, but if someone wrote there's a loss then I thought ok, maybe it is lol.
It certainly isn't the kind of quality loss like the difference between mastertape and 1st gen vhs, but if there is reencoding, there is a loss.
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Theres deffinately a quality loss ....and unacceptable in most trading circles . Worst case senario is having an authored dvd copied sa>sa menus wont work ! lol Also recording in a more compressed format like SP or LP , the quality will take a noticable dip.