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Originally posted by: DanielB
Jay, your argument is too complicated. When you record on DVD-R you often face the problems of a pausing during playback, this also occurs with a lot of commercial discs, especially those which have been poorly pressed. I went through two copies of one DVD I bought before I got a third, working copy of it. D-VHS does not have that problem, consumers can watch a pause-free playback, guaranteed. The potential of the format is huge. If it is marketed correctly, I do believe the market would adopt it over Blu-Ray/HD-DVD.
I'm not arguing that it's a better format, no ... just that it's a more consumer-friendly format, one that will satisfy more consumers.
So you're saying people would go back to all the negative aspects of tape just to avoid the layer change? That's absurd.
I'm also hoping that this time around manufacturers build HD-DVD/BluRay players with enough buffer space and fast enough decoders to allow seamless layer changes. There are a few DVD players that are capable of this now.
It doesn't matter how well they market D-VHS. Most consumers love their shiny little discs and want nothing to do with tape. D-VHS never had any hope of being anything other than a niche format.
I briefly owned a D-VHS deck and would've kept it had the film library been more extensive. The primary reason I bought it was to record HD cable broadcasts, but Comcast didn't offer a FireWire output on the box in my area, so it was useless to me. Even without a decent library, it would've been worth keeping just for this reason.
It's a nice little format, but to say it could defeat BluRay/HD-DVD with some good marketing is silly.
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Originally posted by: PSYCHO_DAYV
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE YOU POST.
Good advice.