Re: will dvds murder the videos?

VHS is already dead for all but some timeshifting of TV viewing
and PVRs and recordable DVDs are starting to take this out too.

The quality of picture and sound along with myriad additional
features you don't get on VHS tape is at the core of this. I've
been picking up DVDs for over four years and am spoiled... I
can no longer endure the relatively poor picture and sound
quality of VHS. I also have hundreds of VHS tapes for sale
cheap :-)

Switch to DVDs was the fastest widespread adoption of a new
consumer technology of it's kind ever (they've only been around
for 6 years or so)... this into a NA market that had over 90%
VCR penetration...

I find players for under $100 and DVD movies for $10-$20 to
be very reasonable.

Unreasonable is the music industry that is determined to sell their
CDs for the same $10-$20 range... why? We can buy the
live DVD with all the music, more features, and the images for
the same (and often less)...

"monsieurblob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> troddled into a store the other day, odd of moneyless me to do such a
> thing, and found, to my utmost horror shelves and shelves of dvds and
> none of vhs. if any vhs, they were usually last sales...
>
> dvds are ridiculous. whenever they get a tiny scratch, you ruin from 5
> seconds to a whole minute of the film. the image at sale is the same.
> the video image wears off a tiddle with time, but thats one of the
> things i like about it, that grainy image. though, of course, not too
> grainy, and indeed, vhs does have a limited life, but i was scavenging
> in me garage the other day and found a copy of a ford movie 20 years
> old. it was in fine condition.
>
> course, 20 years havent passed since the invention of dvds, but i
> never did see the point and blame it on loony consumerism, free will
> defeated in the face of decadent suburbanisation (?)
>
> and the prices are ridiculous., coming out at 24 euros, stabilising at
> 18, with 'offers' at 12. the options are stupid, allowing to change
> languages (so???), to see the players' filmographies (howaboutimdb?)
> and to see the trailers of other movies (of for gewd's sake...)
>
> kodak announced it would make no more photographic film with the
> invention of the digital camera. is the same thing happening to
> videos. are we being told whats good for us? are we just before yet
> another case of commercial speculation?