The death of VHS

[fccHandler]

http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?ei=ISO-8859-1&c=&p=vcr

Sad. :(

[Doom9]

why sad? let's break out the champaigne and root for a floppy disk, serial port, parallel port and CRT/ TFT with analogue-only input less 2005.

[fccHandler]

Well, sad for me because I still have about 400 video tapes. I do want to digitize them all eventually, but it takes so much time...

[dragongodz]

1 chain store in 1 country is hardly the death of anything.

vhs will be with us until dvd-recorders(as in recording from tv) come down to more reasonable prices. at the moment here they ar 6 times more expensive. i dont know anyone rushing off to buy one. :)

[Mug Funky]

hehe...

Kmart doesn't sell turntables anymore. perhaps they're dead?

although i can't seem to find an audio cartridge player. what the hell were those things, anyway?

[neo75903]

audio cartrigde player? darn how old are you man :)

I prefer to see hd based recording solution as seen with sony's cocoon series, which is onyl sold in Japan.
Specially the option for transfering recordings to a pc is really a plus.

[Mug Funky]

doesn't the iRiver do that? i know there's some portables out there that'll simply record uncompressed 44.1/48k

and i'm not that old - like i say, i don't actually know what the hell they are. only ever seen one, and didn't get a good look at it.

[fccHandler]

Originally posted by dragongodz
1 chain store in 1 country is hardly the death of anything.
I wouldn't know, but the article described them as "one of Britain's biggest electronics chains." I've noticed the VCR selection dwindling here in the U.S. too. I was at my local Target store yesterday; they only sell two models of VCR. One is a Sony, the other is something unmemorable. Their selection of DVD players and recorders is much larger. Some of the DVD players (Philips DVP642, for example) are actually cheaper than the VCRs!

vhs will be with us until dvd-recorders(as in recording from tv) come down to more reasonable prices.
Regardless of the prices, I personally don't trust burned DVDs. They are easily damaged, and in some cases they can inexplicably lose all their data without warning. I don't feel they are a trustworthy replacement for the rugged VHS format.

If I must give up VHS forever (and I will someday), I'm thinking that DV tape might be a good replacement. But that's also a bit pricey at the moment...

[neo75903]

didnt blue ray came in with a cartridge?
One more year to go fcchandler :)

[Soulhunter]

Originally posted by fccHandler

If I must give up VHS forever (and I will someday), I'm thinking that DV tape might be a good replacement. But that's also a bit pricey at the moment...

I considered to buy one of this D-VHS (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80531) recorders... :)


Bye

[neo75903]

@soulhunter:
i have thought about that too, but you have to take account how future proof D-VHS will be. D-VHS is not succesful compared to recordable DVDs.
For this reason i am trying to setup a recording solution based on pc.

[Soulhunter]

Sure, but imo its a relative cheap solution to record HDTV broadcasting...

Guess we wont see a DL-BlueRay recorder for this price the next years !!!


Bye

[fccHandler]

Originally posted by Soulhunter
I considered to buy one of this D-VHS (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80531) recorders... :)
All I can say is... WOW!

I had heard of the term "D-VHS" before, but I knew nothing about it. I will definitely be looking into this. Thanks for the links! :D

[fccHandler]

Originally posted by neo75903
For this reason i am trying to setup a recording solution based on pc.
I have such a setup now. But as my hard drive(s) fill up, I still need a place to store this stuff permanently. I have considered using external and/or removeable hard drives, and I've also posted a poll (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85706) questioning the reliability of hard drives in general. (So far, the poll results are not encouraging.)

[Neo Neko]

Originally posted by Mug Funky
hehe...

Kmart doesn't sell turntables anymore. perhaps they're dead?

although i can't seem to find an audio cartridge player. what the hell were those things, anyway?

They get them in every christmas.

[Mug Funky]

serious? wow.

hmmm... is the australian Kmart the same as the US one?

[neo75903]

@fcchandler:
idd, that is why i have an RAID 5 with 360gig and another two 200gig backup disks. Just to be prepared for the worst.
It offers the most for space/€ and reliablity is still high which cannot always be said about CD based solutions.
I have plans to upgrade my RAID to 1tera when 400gig disks are more affordable. And the current HDs will be used as backup drives and the circle is closed :)

[zilog jones]

Originally posted by dragongodz
1 chain store in 1 country is hardly the death of anything.

It's more like 2 chain stores in at least 2 countries. Dixons also own the Curry's chain as well, which are usually the bigger shops you find kinda out of town. They also have Curry's and Dixons here in Ireland, and for all I know they could be in other countries too.

And they are *the* two biggest chain stores for electrical goods in both countries. I can't even think of any similar chain stores here, except for the brand-specific Panasonic shops and Sony Centres. They have Comet in the UK which is the same kinda thing as Currys, but there's not really anything else.

I suppose one good thing about this is that we'll see some discounts over the next month. If the S-VHS decks they sell (they occasionally have one of the nice German-built JVC S-VHS decks) go under 150 Euro, I'll be there!

[neo75903]

S-VHS never really took off and it suffers aging as it does with normal VHS. Maybe a huge drop in price for D-VHS can save tape based recording otherwise i dont see a good future for tapes.
DV is not an option coz it was designed for camcorders and therefor expensive and tape lenght is way to short. And there arent many DV based home decks neither and the ones sony sells cost you a fortune.