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Posted by Bill on 04/15/06 13:38
Interesting.
<hdoherty@NO SPAMns.sympatico.ca (Hugh Doherty)> wrote in message
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>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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