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

Interesting.
Remember the LD?? How quickly it died. DVDs were nowhere is sight when many
movies were in LD format. Now you cannot even find a LD player being sold in
stores. Yes, people are still using LDs perhaps due to their library
inventory. But maintenance of LD equipment is going to be so expensive that
it will not be worth the money.
VHS recorders will likely follow this route once DVDR units come down to a
price that is so affordable that people would rather make a complete switch.
Two years seems to be a likely time frame for this price drop to happen.

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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...
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> 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.
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> 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!
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