en Combo Decks SR-DVM600US SR-DVM700US combo deck DVD dubbing firewire ilink IEEE-1394 Is it possible to dub DVD's to an external IEEE-1394 device such as a non-linear editing system with the SR-DVM700? <p>Yes, you can digitally transfer content from a DVD, or from the Hard Disk Drive, to a device connected through the IEEE-1394 (iLink) connector on both the SR-DVM600US, and SR-DVM700US.  There may be several steps involved depending on the capture software of your external device.  Ideally, it would be nice to dub directly from the DVD in one step, but most communications software doesn't recognize the DVD player.  <br /><br />However, both decks support direct dubbing from a DVD (or from the HDD) to a MiniDV tape.  Since most non linear editing systems, camcorders and decks will recognize and control the combo unit's MiniDV drive, you can make a temporary copy of the DVD onto a MiniDV tape, and then dub the tape to your external device via IEEE-1394.  </p><p>This method will not work if the DVD is copy protected (as with a commercial movie.)</p><p /> Edgar Shane 2009-02-02 12:45