Preserved Topic: Impending Death of the VCR? (Page 1 of 1)

Check it out! a drive that writes both DVD/CD.

First I've seen.... Of course I've been known to be a little slow from time to time.

- Resolutions, Of All My Fruitless Searches -

[This message has been edited by butcher (edited 06-30-2001).]

Yup, soon the VCR will only be found in tar pits. Even if it's just fadisitic (is that a word? oh goody, I made up a word!) to own DVD, people just have to have what the others have so everyone will have DVD. Pretty slick marketing...

Wow.. that's nice...and to think of that I just bought a new VCR

Yeah, butcher, they've been around for a while but the prices have been really steep. Especially the media. Once blank DVD-R'S become available at much lower prices, then they'll be more widespread.

However, DVD recording isn't as easy as VCR recording because of the encoding, although having this done in hardware would mitigate that somewhat.

Anyway, I figure VCR's will still be around for quite a while. I mean, how many home stereos (the boom box type) are sold without cassette players?

I'm supprised I havent seen any VCR/DVD player on the market yet. I mean it can't be that difficuly to have both in the one box now can it? Then again, they could already exist and I just haven't come accross any, not in Australia at least..

everybody needs a swamp bear

Hey Dracusis.

Here you go:

Samsungs got one

Enjoy

-nimraw
If you can't convince, confuse!

threep drools at the thought of a dvd-r, and says:
"about 6 months ago, i read about a dvd-player/recorder that works just like a vcr, but a shitload better. i still remember the article vividly - im gonna buy one of these babies as soon as they get the hang of mass producing them. they had some pretty hefty claims:

• say you record your favourite program, and you realise that you started 10 mins too early. well, delete those 10 mins, and it goes onto the end of your available recording time.
• say you decide to chop out the ads - again, it goes on the end of the dvd, giving you more recording time....
• video tapes start noticably losing sound/video quality after about 10 re-recordings. dvds, after a thousand or so....
• you can record, say, a dozen different shows on your dv-disc, and then when you load the dvd, you get an index with a little screenshot of each recording to choose which one you want.
• vcr's generally have two recording settings - long, tape stretching and destroying play, and short play. the DVD player can have about 32, with differing levels of compromise between compression and video/sound quality. what benefit can so many different levels have? well, you program into you vcr that you would like to record a movie in the last little bit of your dvd space, and it will compress it just enough to fit it onto the disc - minimal image/sound degradation.

...i think it may have its advantages....