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23/04/01 (21 review reads) |
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Advantages: Sound/picture quality, extras, convinience
Disadvantages: Not re-writable - yet
Video is almost dead. Well in our house anyway! We have got rid a huge batch of our original films through QXL, and we now only have those few films that are near impossible to find, or we just couldn't bear to be parted with. We have also kept only 3 or 4 blank tapes for normal TV recording when we are out or watching another channel.
Our reason - DVD!! The advatages of this format are well known, and VHS is slowly going to die out. Apart from the massively better quality of sound and picture, extra features, sub-titles (useful when you have a noisey 18 month old daughter!), and language selection (not everyone likes their foreign films dubbed, and would prefer the original language with sub-titles), bit also they take up far less shelf/cupboard space, and are far less dominant in a room.
So with the exception of our few VHS movie tapes, and the occasional TV taping, our VHS is left idle, and our Samsung DVD-709 is serving well until re-writable DVDs are within the reach of us common folk!
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- 23/04/01 Hmm, personally I think you're a little premature.
Firstly theres no way Im going to chuck out hundreds of perfectly good videos, and I doubt recordable DVD will be around for a while in the home, personally I would prefer a big hard drive in a box!!
DVD's are great and I buy all my new films on DVD, but I know a lot of people dont. DVD's are expensive for what you get, and yes the quality is better, but only very much better if you have the massive TV and surround sound to do it justice.
Good op tho!! |
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- 23/04/01 VHS isn't quite dead yet, and now very cheap, anyway there's lots of new goodies still to come which might stop DVD in its tracks, like direct linked computer systems which will store the programmes in its hard disk, and also tv programmes and films on demand through telephone lines, both available in the near future if not already. |
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- 23/04/01 I hate to say this, but I needed a little more info. I love my DVD player and would never go back to VHS, but I just wanted to read more. Maybe how it worked or a typical list of extras that you get on them. I will keep reading your opinions though and will watch with avid interest.
Nicely , Bigmama. |
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