OK - lets think about a few things people
- VHS has been around for over 20 years with more movies available than DVD may ever see. Do you think they are going to bring out 'every' movie ever made in a DVD form... NOT. Oh yeah...New D-VHS decks can also playback ALL the VHS analogue standards. How responsible to consumers' investments is JVC for accomplishing that!
- Yes DVD has better picture and resolution than standard 'analogue' VHS. But it definately doesn't have the speed (bitrate) or storage capacity of a VHS tape gone digital:D-VHS. D-VHS holds 50GB of data vs DVD's 4.7GB(per side). Titanic encoded for D-VHS requires 33GB.
- Have any of you 'chapter' and 'feature' geeks out there stood up in front of everyone in a movie theatre and started to surf the movie with a remote? The 'serious' home theatre user would prefer quality over navagation. Movies were meant to be watched from beginning to end - linear. Are they any of you who wish to argue that DVD is better than film? Gee-wiz... Film is linear...bummer it has to be rewound. Well people, D-VHS now allows consumers (simple folks like us) to playback studio D-5 master quality movies in high definition in our own homes! D-VHS is doing to the High-Definition video industry, what VHS did for Standard-Definition video industry 20 years ago.
- D-VHS is not to compete with DVD, because they are for two different audiences (customers). Stop worrying about D-VHS messing up DVD growth and support. Start worrying about the Internet streaming DVD 'standard def' quality video on demand - in the near future, you won't need to 'buy' shiny discs. You will just buy movies virtually, and watch them anytime, anywhere.
- D-VHS is simply taking it's place as the premium video playback technology for consumers, 'the ONLY HDTV format for consumers', and will be so for the next decade.
- Lastly, D-VHS will not replace DVD.... because it's in a different market than DVD. Yes engineers are working on blue-laser disc technologies that will enhance speed and storage for HD application, but we are several years away, and by that time gauranteed there will be competing manufacturers with various versions...like DVD+RW,-RW,RAM is today.
On top of that, new technologies like digital wafer cards could be better - no scratches, no moving parts, lots of storage, size of a quarter? Technology never stops improving.
If you want HDTV today, D-VHS is your ONLY choice.
(or buy a professional movie film projector for you basement):)
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OK - lets think about a few things people - VHS has been around for over 20 years with more movies available than DVD may ever see. Do you think they are going to bring out 'every' movie ever made in a DVD form ... NOT. Oh yeah...New D-VHS decks can also playback ALL the VHS analogue standards. How responsible to consumers' investments is JVC for accomplishing that!
- Yes DVD has better picture and resolution than standard 'analogue' VHS. But it definately doesn't have the speed (bitrate) or storage capacity of a VHS tape gone digital:D-VHS. D-VHS holds 50GB of data vs DVD's 4.7GB(per side). Titanic encoded for D-VHS requires 33GB.
- Have any of you 'chapter' and 'feature' geeks out there stood up in front of everyone in a movie theatre and started to surf the movie with a remote? The 'serious' home theatre user would prefer quality over navagation. Movies were meant to be watched from beginning to end - linear. Are they any of you who wish to argue that DVD is better than film? Gee-wiz... Film is linear...bummer it has to be rewound. Well people, D-VHS now allows consumers (simple folks like us) to playback studio D-5 master quality movies in high definition in our own homes! D-VHS is doing to the High-Definition video industry, what VHS did for Standard-Definition video industry 20 years ago.
- D-VHS is not to compete with DVD, because they are for two different audiences (customers). Stop worrying about D-VHS messing up DVD growth and support. Start worrying about the Internet streaming DVD 'standard def' quality video on demand - in the near future, you won't need to 'buy' shiny discs. You will just buy movies virtually, and watch them anytime, anywhere.
- D-VHS is simply taking it's place as the premium video playback technology for consumers, 'the ONLY HDTV format for consumers', and will be so for the next decade.
- Lastly, D-VHS will not replace DVD.... because it's in a different market than DVD. Yes engineers are working on blue-laser disc technologies that will enhance speed and storage for HD application, but we are several years away, and by that time gauranteed there will be competing manufacturers with various versions...like DVD+RW,-RW,RAM is today.
On top of that, new technologies like digital wafer cards could be better - no scratches, no moving parts, lots of storage, size of a quarter? Technology never stops improving.
If you want HDTV today, D-VHS is your ONLY choice.
(or buy a professional movie film projector for you basement):)