vhs to dvd OR vhs (copying) MY TERM

I am old school so I think in simpler terms. By no means am I a TECHNOGEEK, and computer speak is a foriegn language to me. When I started to copy dvds TO tape I bought an inexpensive sbleizer from GRANDTEK.COM for $25. It works well in removeing CP from commercial dvds at the players output, to send it to the vres input. I would imagine it would work just as well feeding a disc recorde, with or without hard drive. It seems to me that a disc recorder would need the same CLEAN signal as tape, since to my knowledge NO maker yses a built in stablizer. My best combination I have used was a newer dvd player feeding an older vcr that was built BEFORE CP(magnavision) was used. In that instance the vcr could record a clean signal because it did NOT recognize the presence of the cp. An older dvd player can be fed to a newer vcr because it too cannot recognize CP. As for the reverse GRANDTEK also makes a similar unit for vcrs that DO recognize CP encoded tapes and remove that CP that can then be fed to another vcr or a disc recorder. If your makeing what I call a simple copy with little or no editing I would set the recorders speed at the fastest(SP?) on a dosc recorder, adjust any quality settings if provided and let the two machines record in real time. For more storage you can go to a slower speed depending on the type of disc and it*s storage capacity, again in rea; tim directly to disc. For heavy editing later I would use the best quality settings possible for the hard drive and still record in real time sinse vcrs and dvds do NOT record at the same real time speeds in relation to each other. As opposed to OPEN REEL RCORDERS that ALL recorder at the same standard speeds at multiples of a factor of 2 faster or slower, meaning that you could play AND record at twice or four times rel time and your copy would play at the original real time speed that it was recorded at. As for copying from dvd TO dvd, once the tape> stabilizer> dvd was produced two dvds could then be used to do a RAW copy WITHOUT the need for the stabilizer. Or in the alternitive the hard drive recording could be edited into a final file, and the sent to the recording macine again as a raw copy, without the stabilizer. That is my take on the whole subject. Incidently I HAVE NOT switched to a disc recorder of any kind because I have # owner manuals for 3 current models from well known names and 1 off brand and all 3 manuals are 100+ pages long and I find them so confuseing as to be useless. Too much computerspeak and not enough simple condensed ways of doing the basic functions the units were made for. In my opinion these units are NOT a simple disc version of a vcr. They are in fact just overblow computers overly complicated and much more complex than they need to be for the basic functions they are to perform. I don*t see myself owning one any time soon, not for a number of years. Not until they are just as intuitive to use as a vcr, By then they will be obsolete! I will get off my soap box now!!!