Comments on: Rumors of VHS’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated

By: Steve Froud

Steve Froud — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:48:16 +0000

I still VHS to record documentaries from my BTVision Box, (that’s vision on demand, down-streamed through my broadband connection). Still well good enough quality to view even on a 40″ plus TV.

Otherwise I use DVD and DVD DL to record HD quality in mkv format and play back on my Blu-ray player. Blu-ray movies getting cheaper though, so will start buying more pre-recorded ones and rely less on downloading/streaming, (less time consuming) and downloading/streaming has the problem of being only available for 24hrs on your hdd after you’ve purchased a movie.

Even thinking of purchasing an S-VHS vcr to store large amounts of drama’s and documentries on, and VHS is still by far the most versitile recording format, you don’t have to format or bloody finalize them for one thing!

By: JimmieD

JimmieD — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:23:02 +0000

My combination VHS/DVD recorder reminds me, each time I attempt to use the VHS “side” to record the HDTV over-the-air signal, that “a digital signal cannot be recorded on an analog device”.

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By: Geoff Boucher

Geoff Boucher — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:57:01 +0000

This is a great piece, smart and so well written. I really enjoyed reading it and I’m glad my article (or the bad echoes it set off in the media)helped inspire it…