Sony HC38 - problems transferring DV to DVD?

Question

My old Sharp VL-NZ105 camcorder died last week and I'm left with a bunch of DV tapes of family movies that I still need to transfer to DVDs so I bought a Sony HC38 over the weekend. I put the DV tapes in the new Sony and plugged it into my Philips DVD recorder. But when I hit the record button, the DVD burner displays a message stating that the DV tape is "copy protected" and therefore refuses to record.

But they were originally just blank TDK DV tapes I bought at Costco so I have no idea why the Sony is reading them as "copy protected"... maybe there is a conflict between the two different brands of camcorders?

I'm pretty sure the Sharp doesn't have some copy protection feature when I was recording... very strange. I researched the Sony manual and it just says that it won't record copy protected software.

Answer 1

Did you take the Tab off the spine of the cassette or set the cassette so you wouldn't rerecord over you tapes??