Posted by Goro on 03/08/06 18:57

Kimba W. Lion wrote:
> "G-squared" <stratus46@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >Beta was somewhat better early on but
> >1: the cassette was too small so the record time was less
>
> A lot of people felt that way, which is what counted in the marketplace. In
> actuality, you could get 3 hours on one cassette in BII mode, which was
> higher quality than the 2 hours of VHS SP mode. But nobody seemed to care
> about quality and used the 6 hour SLP/EP mode.
>
> Which makes me wonder just how many people are really going to care about
> the advertised quality improvement with the new discs.

i think people have shown time and time again that they DO NOT CARE
ABOUT QUALITY. or at least about sound/video fidelity.

I'm eager for an HD playback device, but without draconian DRM, so it'
looks like i may be sitting this one out, even though i find DVD to be
only ok video-quality-wise and really want HD (even 720p). Hell, i'd
even be happy with 480p with higher disc capacity and thus higher
bitrate (and fewer artifacts).

It may turn out that the Next Great Video Thing (tm) will be
xvid/divx/h.264 playback. Or maybe not. Maybe we'll just use DVDs for
the next 10 yrs despite what the studios try to force upon us.

-goro-


> >2: the machines broke too often
>
> Well, it was Sony. What else can you expect?

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