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A Closer Look At D-VHS At DVDfile.com

Posted by timothy on from the we-control-the-horizontal-we-control-the-vertical dept.

great throwdini writes: "Peter M. Bracke of DVDfile.com has written a more thoughtful piece on D-VHS (mentioned in the Slashdot article, Copy-Protected Digital VHS) based on his impressions of a press demonstration. Says Fox's VP of Marketing, Peter Staddon, 'If we thought it (D-VHS) was going to kill DVD, we wouldn't be doing it.' Peter has even put together a nice little factsheet on the format. Encryption may be absent on D-VHS tapes, but it looks like the practice of region coding may continue."

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  1. Re:Need more information... by Murdock037 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course it's compatible with your Betamax tapes. In five years, they'll be interchangable when it comes to propping up table legs and such.