Originally posted by Major Knight
Dont wanna be a dick but guess what u might have not heard of these but actually these new VHS tapes are actually better then DVD's now, its crazy but i watched it on some channel and the talked about it for hours.
Would you mind providing a link to any information on that? If it's not widely heard about, I doubt they'd release something like that anyway. The digital quality of the DVDs seem to be superior to any film.. they filmed Attack of the Clones entirely digitally, and I can tell the difference with my eyes on the quality of the film and digital between Episodes I and II... these new VHS tapes, do they play in normal cassette players? If so, the sound cannot bypass that of a DVD; VHS from what I can tell doesn't decode into 5.1, but only 2.1, with a virtual surround effect. And the blue-laser DVDs are actually out in Japan now, and they deliver an HD picture on a roughly 25 GB disc, about five times the storage of a conventional DVD. Personally, I don't see regression taking place in the future, only advancements with the current technology at hand, and VHS is a bit dated in its expandability and options, as it is. I doubt any "higher quality" VHS tapes would provoke an analog revolution... were you by any chance referring to DVC, Hi-8, 8mm, or S-VHS? I know of those video formats being superior to VHS, but none of those beat the Mini DVD-R's that can be used in the higher end video cameras, as of late. I'm not saying you're wrong by any means, I'm just sorting out what I know, and what I think would happen realistically with the current circumstances with technology, and probable business approaches by Square and other companies that are putting out movies for home use.
EDIT: Alright, I did some google searching, and came up with this link: http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/dvhs/
An exerpt from the article that basically says what I've been saying:
But D-VHS does have significant drawbacks. First of all, it's a tape-based format. And tapes are notoriously easy to damage, as all of you that have lost a favorite movie to your VCR can attest. During one of the demonstrations we saw, the image broke into digital static for a moment... clearly the result of an imperfection in the tape. Because it's tape, you're also missing most of the convenience, accessibility, bonus material and interactivity of DVD. If you want pretty picture and sound, it's there. But you don't get anything else. And then there's the cost - not only do you have to buy a new deck and new movies to enjoy D-VHS, you also need a pricy new HDTV too. That alone will scare the vast majority of consumers away. Ultimately, as good as D-VHS looks and sounds, the press members I spoke with at the event all agreed that recordable, high definition DVD is eventually going to be the knock down, drag out future of home entertainment.
So D-VHS is the name. But this is horridly off-topic. I think we should make a topic about this in the appropriate area, personally, this is quite interesting. Very interesting article, regardless. With the player being nearly 2 grand, however, I don't see Advent Children on there, at least any time close to launch.