----------------------------Original message---------------------------- In response to Susan's transfer questions.... Panasonic makes a fairly affordable "world standard" VHS VCR. This will play any format (Pal, SECAM, NTSC) and give you a NTSC output (US Standard). You can then dub from this deck onto a regular VHS VCR. The unit costs about $3k. Most video facilities around the country also offer this service, at a per-minute rate, which do add up, so be careful! As to the legalities, well, vagueness rears it's ugly head again. I always thought that dubbing for "personal" use or even "educational" purposes was ok under the copyright laws, but I'm not really the expert. 2 semesters of broadcast/media law several years ago seem to have failed me...anyone else have insight? Mike the techie....