Posted by AZ Nomad on 03/13/07 02:21

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:24:58 GMT, def456 <def456@none.none> wrote:


>It depends. I've got S-VHS copies of Gone With The Wind and a lot of other
>old classics in Technicolor that are better quality than the DVD versions.
>Even some S-ET and VHS tapes are as good as the DVD versions, for example
>Schindler's List which I recorded a long time ago from a special showing on
>one of the networks (ABC?) in cable analog. Of course a lot of old cheap
>quality VHS tapes aren't worth saving, too many glitches, not even worth
>copying to a DVD.

I think you're either full of shit, high on drugs, or have a defective dvd
player or dvds.
There is no way in hell a broadcast is even within two orders of magnatude
of a DVD in picture or sound quality. Perhaps you're comparing to DVD's burned
from downloaded movies, something that's been retranscoded a few times?

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