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In Reply to: Home recording trends - VCR's dying posted by John C. - Aussie on August 14, 2002 at 23:22:20:
John,What do you mean by "s-video is nearly dead?" I was under the impression that S-Video is a connection method between two different devices for getting a video signal from one to the other. Since you are discussing recording, I'm guessing you mean S-VHS. But I don't want to assume and be wrong, thus I ask for clarification.
Around here I see lots of Re-Play and TiVo HD recorders. One of the draws to TiVo for me is the optional TiVo-net card that lets you put the TiVo on your home ethernet. This is a pretty good way to get video into your computer.
I didn't even know that Sony had a DVD recorder. Panasonic, Pioneer, and Philips have had machines out for a while. If Sony is pioneering home DVD recording, they aren't blowing their horn as hard as they usually do.
VCD recorders have been around for years. Not as good as DVD recorders, but they record onto cheap CD-R media. There are some that can even record SVCDs.
I agree that VHS machines are on the way out. For a replacement of the lowly VHS recorder, I think a VCD recorder is a fair choice considering the low cost of the machines and the cheap media. But it is hard to give a VCD recorder the nod when DVD recorders are making their presence known.
Follow Ups:
The header was referring to VCRs so I thought my reference about s-video was clearly meant to apply to VHS machines, not s-video generally. Sorry if you were confused.However, the emphasis is on component these days so interest in s-video generally is declining. No question it will be with us for quite awhile yet because it is considerably better than composite.
John
Peace at AA
No need to apologize John, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't making a blunder. I agree that it is getting harder to find S-VHS machines these days. The last two that I bought (one a Mitsubishi, the other a JVC) were in the sub US$150 and had performance to match that price point. Very sad, but at least they had S-Video connections. I have never seen any VCR (either VHS or S-VHS) with component connections. I'll have to drop by a shop again if you are saying that the emphasis these days is on component connections and S-Videos are drying up in the VCR world. That would be cool.
Component on VHS tape machines has never appeared as a consideration but component output is (justifiably) the flavour of the month with quality DVD and I guess it is with the hard drive digital machines also(???).s-video was the quality choice with laserdisc with no component output ever appearing that I'm aware of but we seem to be moving on. Which direction we will end up with for home recording is the 64 million dollar question at the moment. And that is assuming the moguls do not prevent copying full stop. In the meantime I'll stick with s-video taping to time shift.
John
Peace at AA
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