Was this in the US? Because then you had PAL vs NTSC, which is think would be an even bigger problem.

I get mine on Amazon. But I know a lot of people don’t like Amazon.

Get a 2tb or 3tb external USB drive. They are pretty cheap.

Yes

Backup vhs tapes? They put copy protections on those too, which made that difficult. In the 90s I had two VCRs, I ran the output of one to the input of the other to record duplicates. Some of the copy protection schemes would fuck with the signal or the tracking.

Why is the right side mostly empty?

Did the hacker 4chan write the pho SQL functions?

People who say “codes”

Years? Lol you should update that software.

Some of them offer what they call bare metal provisioning and I wonder if some even offer ILOM type access. That’s pretty much control of the hardware for me. Just that you can’t plug in a disk or a memory stick.