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I don't think it is possible to record a DVD onto NTSC video tape, since DVDs are digital media and NTSC VHS is an analog format
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There is not any sort of format incompatibility. That's like saying it's impossible to use a CD player with an old stereo system. It doesn't matter that the DVD itself is a digital format, because it's a digital encoding of regular NTSC video, and DVD players have internal converters to bring that video back out to analog outputs.
Most DVD players have component and composite outputs... the component isn't directly of much use with a VCR, but composite is a straight shot. Meaning that, on an unprotected DVD, you can take the composite output from the DVD player, plug it into the composite input on a VCR, hit 'record,' and end up with a tape recorded copy of the DVD video, in however good a quality the tape is capable of reproducing. Of course it won't look as good as the original DVD, but it'll at least be on par with most commercially recorded tapes.
For copy protected DVDs, it's almost the same steps, except you'd need to put a TBC in between the DVD player and VCR, to strip the Macrovision. As long as it's a decent quality TBC, you won't really lose any video quality by doing so (at least not any more than you'd lose by going to tape in the first place). In the late '90s / early '00s, before DVD burners were available and affordable, it was a pretty common practice to back up DVD movies to VHS... the process is quite well established.