Posted by def456 on 03/13/07 03:10

"AZ Nomad" <aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote in message
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> 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?

DVDs on my system often have weak/poor sound ("clipping" is the term, I
believe), and the video quality of color movies is often about the same as a
good VHS tape in S-ET mode. S-VHS tapes are the best quality, usually better
than DVDs, with my Mitsubishi S-VHS VCR. I guess that's partly the fault of
my older standard screen TV and DVD player using S-Video connectors. I
suppose I would see/hear more of a difference if I had a new HD widescreen
TV with component connectors, but I don't.

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