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Posted by Richard C. on 03/13/07 18:59
"def456" <def456@none.none> wrote in message
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> "Richard C." <post-age@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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>> "def456" <def456@none.none> wrote in message
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>>> It depends. I've got S-VHS copies of Gone With The Wind and a lot of
>>> other old classics in Technicolor that are better quality than the DVD
>>> versions.
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>> Impossible!
>> GWTW in the newest DVD version is bastly superior to ANYTHING that
>> VHS or S_VHS is capable of!
>> You appear to be blind!
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> Well I'm not exactly blind, and what I said is true of my system.
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Then your "system" has serious problems.
Even a 13" Emerson TV would display the difference between
a VHS and a DVD!
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>I suppose systems are different. The DVD of Gone With The Wind which I got
>recently from Netflix just wasn't very good quality. I don't know why. A
>factor is that finding proper color settings for Technicolor on my TV is
>difficult with the DVD, but easy (automatic) with the S-VHS tape version. I
>just can't seem to find a good color setting for the DVD. The picture is
>too dark, or something. I use S-Video connections which aren't optimum for
>color video so that's part of the problem, I guess.
>
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The S-Video should work fine.
Something is very wrong with your "system".
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>>> Even some S-ET and VHS tapes are as good as the DVD versions, for
>>> example Schindler's List which I recorded a long time ago from a special
>>> showing on one of the networks (ABC?) in cable analog.
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>> You have GOT to be kidding (or a troll).
>> The special edition of Schindler is stunning on DVD.
>> VHS could NEVER, EVER come close to 25% of the quality of this DVD.
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> It surprised me too, and I continue to be amazed every time I watch it.
> That VHS tape was recorded from an analog cable broadcast which is vastly
> superior to the digital crap we get nowadays. That VHS copy of Schindler's
> List is as good as any DVD version of "anything" I've ever seen.
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100% impossible!
Something is very defective in either your system or your eyesight.
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>It's perfect. Mint quality. And that was before I had S-Video connections
>or a S-VHS VCR, so it was recorded with ordinary RCA connectors on an
>ordinary hi-fi VCR. I suppose it helps that I now have S-Video connections
>in my system which optimizes playback of Black & White movies like
>Schindler's List. Of course color movies are different so that couldn't be
>expected.
>
>>>Of course a lot of old cheap quality VHS tapes aren't worth saving, too
>>>many glitches, not even worth copying to a DVD.
>>>
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