VHS, 30, dies of loneliness

[ben_at_work]

[quote][i]Originally posted by MikeP[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by The_Freeman[/i]
<br>I'd take that article with a pinch of salt if I were you, it also claims that VHS' death was preceeded by that of DivX, and DivX (or more importantly, XviD) is far from dead, otherwise I'd be wasting several Gigs of bandwidth every month. VHS will hang around for many years to come I'm sure.
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The DivX they speak of in the article is not the MPEG4 codec but the much maligned pay-to-play DVD concept pushed by Circuit City back in the early days of DVD (see: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,20259,00.html)
It was a disaster from the get-go.

That being said, VHS will hang around for awhile longer. I'm in no hurry to dispense with my S-VHS player any time soon. I have many years of digitizing home movies, videos and other video oddities to look forward to.
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Yeah hold onto them Mike. I remember how cool it was at family get togethers when Grandpa would pull out the 8mm home movies of my mom and the rest of my family when they were kids. Hopefully VHS tapes hold up better than 8mm film although i liked all the old film noise and age distortion. [:D]

[SomebodySomewhere]

I still remember a while back when this idiot PR guy for Paramount -- we'll give him any old name... Martin Blythe -- was laughably quoted as saying VHS was the studio's "bread and butter" but DVD might soon be "as important." This was after DVD had been out for, oh, 3 years.

With that said, although I only have 2 DVD recorders, I have 14 VCRs, and I'll be using a few of them to record for the conceivable future. There's usually more than 2 good things on at a time!

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[Bitter Almonds]

[quote][i]Originally posted by marvymarv[/i]
<br>What a funny way to write a news report [:D]

I spent alot of time converting what VHS tapes I have of value that can't be replaced by DVD. Namely recordings from TV, home movies and those few flicks that never have found the light of digital. I use the Pinnacle Systems Movie Box:

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/u ... sion+9.htm

It does'nt come with Mac software but that's OK because it works seamlessly with iMovie. In there, I can set up all my chapters and grab still frames to bring into iDVD where I set up my menus.

I bought the Movie Box for under a hundred bucks a good year, year and a half ago. Can you imagine what I would have spent if I brought some fifty tapes to one of those conversion places that charge around fifty bucks an hour? I would'nt be surprised if you can buy the Movie Box for around fifty today on eBay or Amazon.

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<p align="justify">Dude... I'm gettin' a new computer soon and THIS is where I have to be!

[WolverineSyr]

I bought a cheap LiteOn brand dvd recorder a year ago at BJ's. It's easy to use, just plug a vcr into it and then plug the dvd recorder into a tv. The quality is much, much better than I expected (of course only as good as the quality fo the tape.) I have not noticed any loss from the source tape, if there is any - it's minimal.

I'd really recommend it if you're in teh market for a standard dvd recorder. I have not yet set it up to my cable dvr though.

[MARV]

XXX, I highly recommend this setup. I can help you get up and running, no problem. I think it's a really fun hobby. I've also converted people's weddng tapes to DVD and when you show them the results, they're really impressed. The menus are the most fun to design, especially with the animations. You can create slideshows and work seamlessly with Garageband to add music loops to the menus. You can learn to do all this within a day.

The only thing I probably should'nt have done was take the time to convert my theatrical editions of the original Star Wars trilogy. But who knew that Lucas would eventually release them on DVD in all their unrestored beauty (even though I had a feeling he eventually would - but I did it just in case). I am glad I put the 1997 Special Edition on DVD though since there are no plans of an official DVD of those yet, if ever.

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[Bitter Almonds]

<p align="justify">If I had that... I'd never leave the house<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v465/Nuwavghost/icon_eek.gif">

[KYYX4ever]

heh,
I'm similar to marie3 in that we use our VCR all the time too. But we also have a DVD player--which we got b/c its main function is as a CD PLAYER.
No surprise from me, the NWO's friendly retro-dinosaur. But actually, I'm OK w/ DVDs and digitechonology. It just took us years to get around to it!

[Spectre General]

Hmm? What is this VCR you speak of? It can't possibly be better than my CED discs on my RCA Selectavision...

[Bitter Almonds]

<p align="justify">LaserDisc is dead. It's strange 'cause it was big in Japan. On that alone, I almost went out and bought an LD player. Thank bog, I didn't!

[obs]

I bought a cheap LiteOn brand dvd recorder a year ago at BJ's. It's easy to use, just plug a vcr into it and then plug the dvd recorder into a tv. The quality is much, much better than I expected (of course only as good as the quality fo the tape.) I have not noticed any loss from the source tape, if there is any - it's minimal.

Yeah, the LSI Logic chipset used by Lite On (as well as other manufacturers) is suppose to do some noise reduction on VHS. But the Lite Ons also have a nasty habit of only encoding in mono through the TV tuner.

If anyone is thinking of buying a DVD recorder, I recommend that you avoid the disc only units and spend more for ones with an HDD.

[djcraig]

Format evolution is brilliant marketing, really.

How many different ways can they sell us the SAME stuff?

For music alone there's 8 track, cassette, album, cd, minidisc, mp3, remastered cd, 5.1 surround sound cd, ringtones...

I know I'm forgetting a few others. And surely more to come...



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[randy]

Marie--Your not the only one still using VCR'S.[;)]

[obs]

[i]For music alone there's 8 track, cassette, album, cd, minidisc, mp3, remastered cd, 5.1 surround sound cd, ringtones...[/i]

Nobody in their right mind should be buying ringtones. Make your own and upload them via infrared/bluetooth. Of course that means you have to not buy phones from asshole network providers who like to disable features on their phones. Answer: GSM!