D-VHS has been avaiable for years. I remember the first unit I ever saw, it was ~5 years ago at a hi-fi shop that had just started carrying the first DVD players. That was standard definition D-VHS, and this new one is HD, but the fact it, D-VHS has already been a misreable failure. Nobody (not even hi-fi zealots) where willing to pay for the things. The retailed for about 3 grand, and offerred nothing substantially better than DVD, except they were recordable. To my knowledge, the only people who ever bought these things are the guys who do hardware reviews for Home Theater (or any of it's competitors), to use as test beds for new TVs and projectors. Mose companies that produces one of these things abondoned them soon afterward to focus on DVD, and frankly, they aren't gogin to go back and revisit a failed technology just because one company has altered it to store a HD signal.
The other major problem with these things it that they're only real use is to records HD programming for playback, and since there is virtually no HD programming available, there's not much use for recorder. Be sure yto thank your local cable company for that.
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D-VHS has been avaiable for years. I remember the first unit I ever saw, it was ~5 years ago at a hi-fi shop that had just started carrying the first DVD players. That was standard definition D-VHS, and this new one is HD, but the fact it, D-VHS has already been a misreable failure. Nobody (not even hi-fi zealots) where willing to pay for the things. The retailed for about 3 grand, and offerred nothing substantially better than DVD, except they were recordable. To my knowledge, the only people who ever bought these things are the guys who do hardware reviews for Home Theater (or any of it's competitors), to use as test beds for new TVs and projectors. Mose companies that produces one of these things abondoned them soon afterward to focus on DVD, and frankly, they aren't gogin to go back and revisit a failed technology just because one company has altered it to store a HD signal. The other major problem with these things it that they're only real use is to records HD programming for playback, and since there is virtually no HD programming available, there's not much use for recorder. Be sure yto thank your local cable company for that.