Posted by Charlie Hoffpauir on 04/15/06 14:57

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:38:35 GMT, "Bill" <billreed@w4pls.com> wrote:

>Interesting.
><hdoherty@NO SPAMns.sympatico.ca (Hugh Doherty)> wrote in message
>news:l7O%f.59772$VV4.1105521@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>>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?
>>
>
No, trolling.
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