Posted by Larry Caldwell on 12/10/05 21:41

In article <b3rhp1de7j86gbc9tvupc7tgs7mef5frao@4ax.com>,
Spamstillsucks@buffyandkantica22arestillbrianlamb.org (Allan) says...

> CD's killed Cassettes/LP's.

Cassettes were not good enough. The audio dropped out at about 12 khz,
which was a long way from Hi Fi. LPs sounded good when new, but quickly
wore out of developed irritating noises. They were also bulky. CDs
were just better.

> DVD's Killed Laser Disc's.

Geez, quit with the apostrophe abuse! Laser Discs were bulky, didn't
offer digital audio, and you had to turn the disc over in the middle of
the movie. And the players cost over $300 apiece.

> DVD's are about to finish off prerecorded VHS:

What is finishing off VHS is the large screen TV and the 230 line VHS
resolution. A pre-recorded VHS looks just disgusting on my 8', 1280 x
720 front projection home theater. Not only is Pro logic flat compared
to DD, line tripling just doesn't make it. A good DVD player that will
do 3:2 reverse pull down displays each pixel 1.5 times as long and can
generate a true 720 line image from the 480 line MPEG-2 standard.
Another advantage of DVD format, of course, is that you can view it on
any computer. At work we have gone to DVD recordings of robot cameras
because we can burn half a dozen copies and mail them to any engineer,
who can access them right at his workstation.

The common thread is older formats that are just not good enough. VHS
is not good enough, so I will not willingly use it. I even bought a
video capture setup so I could archive to DVD instead of VHS.

Blue-Ray may become important someday, but if you can burn a HD feature
to a $1 DVD blank using MPEG-4, what does a $5 Blue-Ray blank buy you?

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