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RE: Do Some Actually Prefer VHS to DVD/BluRay?

Posted by EngHelp on December 29, 2011 at 16:19:36:
Todays consumer technology is still not ready for digital video.
VHS was not great, but SVHS was decent enough.
(SVHS was estimated to be up to 65% of a quality of live feed, depending on the machine and tape used).

Then we had DVD that was way inferior to SVHS.
Blue-Ray was next step towards quality of SVHS, but didn't catch on.
Then the progress stopped, and started going backwards (netflix, youtube, etc).
Video signal is 5Mhz or more, NTSC/PAL.
Digital,(24b)it takes about 800 times of a CD.
In perspective, 1h of video will take about 50GB just to match SVHS 65% of live feed of NTSC/PAL.
So, you are looking at about 70-80GB for 1h of video in full quality of NTSC/PAL. That would not fit on Blu-Ray, but it was close.
Now we have HD wich will take way more. We cannot even match SVHS!!!
I hope you understand now why SVHS is still unsurpassed in quality.

If I have a choice to watch on SVHS, I always do. It simply beats all digital of today.

Compression is great for digital. But then someone invented "advanced" compression, and we ended up with MP3 and shit for the video.