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In Reply to: Quality of dvd over vhs tape posted by phil on October 02, 2000 at 11:53:51:
You will see a far greater difference than 10%. Vhs is about 240 lines of resolution. Dvd is about 480 lines. I suggest you rent a player and some dvds from you local movie rental. Remember how much better cd was over cassette tape? Expect a difference of that magnitude.
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***You will see a far greater difference than 10%.Lesseee...
***Vhs is about 240 lines of resolution.
That I horizontal resolution, ball park.
***Dvd is about 480 lines.
I presume you are talking vertical now. You will be lucky to get perhaps 340 horizontal lines.
***I suggest you rent a player and some dvds from you local movie rental.
That will be fine until you stumble over some DVD's that I have. They are quite poor. Worse than good VHS tapes.
What you are testing here is NOT format capability, but some practical implementations.
The difference between the ultimate performance of the VHS and DVD is nice, but not all that great and on some material it may be not visible at all.
Rental tapes - that's another story.
***Remember how much better cd was over cassette tape? Expect a difference of that magnitude.
Anyway, I am not arguing that generally you get better picture with the DVD, just that the VHS was never unfortunately developed into what it is capable of, and therefore given too bad a name.
VHs is in no way equal or comparable to dvd.
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There is more than the 240 -vs- 480 lines of resolution. Some are less important - like not needing to rewind, the 'extras', less shelf space for each DVD and not losing quality through time.To me, the single point that makes it worth it is the sound quality and multichannel discrete sound. With proper speaker setup, this can transform 'watching' a movie into 'experiencing' it!
Just think about this: I never bought a VHS movie as they were fun to watch once. I now own over 60 DVD's since they are so life-like, and the sound tracks are so moving, it's fun to experience the movie more than once!
Brian
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