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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
I think its more than letting the market tell you what they want to buy.

Really? Well Coca-Cola has flunked products by just expecting the market to adopt them. You have to let the market tell you when they're ready for a new format. It's too soon after DVD to dive into a new format, especially if it's only really going to rivial the quality of the already-available D-VHS (which is uncompressed, and four times the resolution of DVD - so current DVD's hold one tenth the digital data that D-VHS does, which is dedicated just to the movie quality, whereas these new disc formats are just scarping 50Gig). The size increase isn't significant enough. It is for consoles to guarantee their developers they'll have more room then they'll ever need - but for a home-video format it's useless.

I mean, it's only just recently become available at a reasonable price for consumers to ger DVD-recorders. D-VHS on the other hand never faced that problem, you can record onto exactly the same High-Definition commercial quality tape straight from the D-VCR, whereas DVD only lets you record onto DVD-R/RAM which is not the same thing as a pressed disc. Consumers can go back to simply recording on tapes - where they can continue recording on the same tape, record record record - don't have to worry about damage, sure some visible damage may occur, but it's not going to pause the playback or anything like that, it'll still play-through.

No, JVC should be able to push D-VHS over the upcoming disc formats anyway.