Re: Sansui DVD-Recorder-VCR combination unit--any good?

"dvd-etc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>However, when all that is done, the VHS
> slot seemed rather redundant say two years down the road when DVDR with
hard
> disk coupled with DVD popularity will very likely replace all VHS uses..
VHS
> will be another Beta tape story...

I disagree. Beta tape never had a large user base. On the contrary, VHS was
widely distributed worldwide, and many people have a lot of VHS tapes in
their houses.

Yes, as DVD recorders become more common and less expensive, they will
replace VHS, and people will not buy or rent VHS (I would guess that DVD has
probably already surpassed VHS for those uses), nor will they record
television shows to VHS. However, people still have a LOT of VHS tapes in
their house, and in two years they are not going to have them all
transferred to DVDs! So, people will still want VHS capability, to watch the
tapes they already have, and/or to record them to DVD. Perhaps in twenty
years a VHS slot will be redundant (maybe by then so will DVD), but not in
two years!