Posted by JEDIDIAH on 06/23/06 15:32

On 2006-06-23, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>>On 2006-06-21, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>>
>>>>Tape techology simply sucks.
>>>
>>> I agree. I was one of the very early adaptors of car (and home)
>>> CD-players for this very reason.
>>>
>>> But, an affordable replacement to SVHS is not yet available, AFAIK.
>>> When it is, I'll joyfully expunge the last bit of tape from my life.
>>
>> Sure it is. Dirt cheap DVD recorder consoles are all over the place.
>>
>> The media is cheaper, takes up less space and is more reliable.
>>
>> It's also easier to duplicate or modify.
>
> That does not replace my SVHS, which gives me 8 hours of
> satelite-quality recording on a single tape. DVD recorders can't do
> that.

SVHS gives you 8 hours of TOTAL CRAP on a tape.

DVD recorders can also adjust the quality level downwards
to trade off quality for time the same as a VCR can (if you really
want to).

It's just MPEG2 after all. You could tune it to any arbitrary
bitrate if you really wanted to rather than just a few pre-canned
options that VHS could offer.

Don't comment on things you obviously have no clue about.

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