Posted by Oldus Fartus on 04/14/06 14:55

Hugh Doherty wrote:
> 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?
>

I have the same recorder, and find the 2 hour setting to be fine,
recording from either the inbuilt tuner, a digital STB connected via the
s-video connector, or other devices connected via the firewire or AV
connectors. There is no doubt the one hour setting is the best, but
even at the 2 hour setting I find the quality to be better than that
recorded from the same source onto VHS.

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Cheers
Oldus Fartus

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