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Posted by Hugh Doherty on 04/14/06 14:14
I just recently bought a Liteon LVW5005 dvd recorder-player to transfer
my very large home VHS collection to dvd directly from a VHS player. I
am shocked to discover that except at one-hour quality, DVD picture
quality (+R)is much poorer than comparable VHS quality. Highest VHS
quality of 2 hours is better than DVD 2-hour quality. Four-hour DVD
quality is very poor, and six-hour DVD quality (despite hype) is
unwatchable, whereas six-hour VHS quality is quite acceptable, and the
majority of my VHS home recordings are at six-hour quality. So home
recording on a DVD recorder at anything more than one or two-hour quality
seems hopeless, which makes the medium useless for many movies,
documentaries, operas, etc. which are longer than two hours. Do I need
better equipment, or is all the hype of lo these many years about DVD
quality just so much baloney,except when applied to store-bought and
rented commercial DVDs?
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