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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Manchester
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My trusty top jobby Akai VHS has had enough. It plays fine but I suspect that the recording head is shafted. (Quoted £100+ to repair).
Purchase required. Read a lot of the postings below and truly affordable and correct format CD-R seems some way off. What about D-VHS ? What sort of budget would I need for this ? Is S-VHS no longer recommendable due to the forthcoming advancements in home recording technology ? Should I go and spend my £500-600 on a top range but standard VHS machine ? Could I get as lot more benefit for a little more money ? I appreciate that this isn't exactly the right forum, but trust somebody here might speak a little bit of sense re. D-VHS and CD-R. Answers on the back of a postcard or sealed down envelope please. |
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SORRY....... !
Kept blabbing in that posting about CD-R! Obviously I meant DVD-R !! |
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I suggest that you have a look at the thread headed
'DVD Players / VCR's' in this discussion group. It has some discussion on the issue of DVD and D-VHS The one thing that would bother me is that D-VHS has been around for a while and does not seem to be making much of a breakthrough. The cost of the hardware is still in the £1000 category and there are no signs that anyone is going to sell pre-recorded D-VHS, which means that you are stuck with VHS picture quality for pre-recorded material. You might be better off buying a cheap VHS VCR and waiting until the R-DVD issue is sorted out and one format becomes established, and the hardware gets cheaper. This shouldn't take more than a couple of years! |
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You could have a look at a couple of S-VHS machines from the likes of JVC and Philips for around £300 or less.
Look through the ads in What Video |
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Zog:
Should I go and spend my £500-600 on a top range but standard VHS machine ? Could I get as lot more benefit for a little more money? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> If you use your VCR mainly for playing back pre-recorded material, I can't see any benefit in D-VHS. As Michael Haddock wrote, there are no pre-recorded D-VHS tapes yet. The situation is different if you use your VCR mainly for recording from digital TV and DVD. I recently bought a D-VHS recorder and I am really impressed by the picture quality when copying a DVD. I can't see any difference between the DVD original and the D-VHS tape. It is really 100% the same picture quality. However the Dolby Digital sound cannot be recorded, so the D-VHS just has hifi stereo sound quality. Since I use my D-VHS only for recording from DVD or digital TV, I think it was worth spending £1000 for a D-VHS machine instead of £600 for a top range standard VHS machine. |
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I'd spend £1000 on buying a decent programmable VCR (like the sony) and a sony DVD player. I don't think D-VHS will survive/last. But that's just my opinion.
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Location: cambs UK
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agreed but not a sony vcr as they are notoriously bad at making vcr's
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