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D-VHS to Hit The Market This Week
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Yahoo News is has an article stating that D-VHS is hitting the market this week. The upside: D-VHS supports full high-definition picture quality. The down side: $35 - $45 per movie (although available for less) and $2k for a player. Seems to me you'd lose a lot of that HD picture after a few viewings too. 4 studios are supporting it: 'JVC persuaded Fox, Universal, DreamWorks and Artisan to support the format after developing a new copy-protection standard it calls D-Theater to prevent unauthorized copying of the high-definition movies'."
Posted by timothy on Thursday June 06, @12:27AM
from the yeah-that'll-work dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Yahoo News is has an article stating that D-VHS is hitting the market this week. The upside: D-VHS supports full high-definition picture quality. The down side: $35 - $45 per movie (although available for less) and $2k for a player. Seems to me you'd lose a lot of that HD picture after a few viewings too. 4 studios are supporting it: 'JVC persuaded Fox, Universal, DreamWorks and Artisan to support the format after developing a new copy-protection standard it calls D-Theater to prevent unauthorized copying of the high-definition movies'."
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D-VHS to Hit The Market This Week
Posted by timothy on Thursday June 06, @12:27AM
from the yeah-that'll-work dept.
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Yahoo News is has an article stating that D-VHS is hitting the market this week. The upside: D-VHS supports full high-definition picture quality. The down side: $35 - $45 per movie (although available for less) and $2k for a player. Seems to me you'd lose a lot of that HD picture after a few viewings too. 4 studios are supporting it: 'JVC persuaded Fox, Universal, DreamWorks and Artisan to support the format after developing a new copy-protection standard it calls D-Theater to prevent unauthorized copying of the high-definition movies'."
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DOA (Score:1)
by Torgo's Pizza (torgo@@@attbi...com) on Thursday June 06, @12:29AM (#3650395)
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Can someone say 'DivX'?
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Hmmm... (Score:1)
by JebusIsLord on Thursday June 06, @12:29AM (#3650396)
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Isn't tape very 70s? DVD is just fine for film, and I would prefer to record off the air onto a TIVO-like device. This technology seems dead in the water to me... Can anyone think of a good application for it?
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Picture Quality (Score:2)
by cheinonen (cheinonen@nOspaM.hotmail.com) on Thursday June 06, @12:29AM (#3650398)
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I acually don't think you should lose any of the quality. This isn't VHS where it's stored in an analog format that degrades, I'd think of it more as a DAT tape with all digital data that should keep it's quality. Just keep it away from a magnet. Since JVC came up with it, and they own the patent on VHS, I'm sure the name came from that, and the fact that it's on tapes.
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I'm fed up with all this copy protection business. (Score:1)
by Markusis on Thursday June 06, @12:30AM (#3650403)
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You're media is going to get copied...learn to embrace it, or just get over it. I shouldn't be subjected to all of this crap. Pretty soon we'll be signing stuff just to watch a movie.
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In the 'What Ever Happened To' Column.. (Score:1)
by Smelly Jeffrey on Thursday June 06, @12:32AM (#3650411)
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I'm going to get Episode II when it comes out.. on BETA.
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I give it six months (Score:2)
by Ars-Fartsica on Thursday June 06, @12:32AM (#3650412)
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Really, with the widespread adoption of DVD, what is the motivation for film companies to provide widespread support for another format?
How many people have sets capable of rendering the signal at full quality anyway?
Maybe it would have had a chance before DVD authoring equipment became cheap, (assuming the authoring equipment for this format even exists for consumers), but otherwise this looks to be DOA.
The development costs will just be translated to higher DVD prices in a year.
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Hey, I've been waiting for this! (Score:2)
by ObviousGuy (ObviousGuy@hotmail.com) on Thursday June 06, @12:32AM (#3650413)
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What with the massive uptake of HDTVs in the U.S. and all.
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Failed Formats of the Future (Score:2)
by Alien54 on Thursday June 06, @12:36AM (#3650426)
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I wonder how many formats are going to fail because no one is paying attention to the results of market research.
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Mirror of this article in case it's /.'ed (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06, @12:40AM (#3650454)
Posted by timothy on Thursday June 06, @12:27AM
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An Anonymous Coward writes: "Yahoo News is has an article stating that D-VHS is hitting the market this week. The upshot: D-VHS supports full high-definition picture quality, at a lower total cost of ownership than DVD. Run out and grab one today. 4 studios are supporting it: 'JVC persuaded Fox, Universal, DreamWorks and Artisan to support the format after developing a new copy-protection standard it calls D-Theater to prevent unauthorized copying of the high-definition movies', which means that the tapes themselves will be much cheaper than VHS."
"Beta and LaserDisc, say hello to your new friend, D-VHS" *Slams the closet door*
:-) )
:-p
I mean, there are so many disadvantages to this technology. Sure the picture quality is going to be very nice, much better then DVDs but... From what I understand this is a tape based format. Now, anyone who's been using DVDs for a while will never want to use DVHS. It's like going back to dialup when you had broadband : nobody wants to be waiting for the tape to go forward and backward so they can find what they're looking for.
Plus, what's cool about a DVD is that you get access to all the special features easily. But with a tape based format, you will have to fast-forward your way to the end of the tape to find the special features. I hate fastforwaring to the end of my "Army of Darkness" tape to show the alternate ending to friends who want to see it but not the whole movie. (not wanting to see the movie should be a crime, but that's another topic
Also, DVDs have these advantages over DVHS : they are small, shiny, and you don't get a fine at the videostore because you forgot to *rewind* your DVD.