As u can also do on DVD.
On most if not all dvd disks, you are prohibited from fast forwarding through the FBI piracy screen.
They take like three seconds to go by. Although I can agree on hating those menus that has to show so many scenes from the movie and ruining it for people who havenæ't seen it before.
Ya, you just pointed out a huge problem with menus. Plot give-aways are rampant on menus. Ya know, in the theater, you never sit through a preview of the movie you paid to see. I expect the same when I rent a movie at home! Then having to search all around the screen for the 'play movie' text, which is often hidden among background clutter or you have to circle your clicker all the way around the tv screen. Just play the damn movie.
Um, there seems to be a lot more problems with VHS then with DVD. If the tape gets a scratch u might have to watch the entire movie with a line cutting the screen in half.
I think there are as many if not more problems with DVDs. Whenever I rent a DVD, they are rife with scratches from morons who don't know how to handle a disk or put it in their player without scraping it against the tray or God know what. I have NEVER had a problem with VHS rentals, especially since dvds became popular, but even before, never. I say let 'em rent DVDs, that way my VHSs will still be watchable.
Do u mean dropping it when in the cover? As DVDs has cover too..
Of course both DVDs and VHSs have cases. But when you drop a VHS or bang it or have your kid use it as a building block, it'll still play. Try dropping a DVD on the floor and moving it around like a hockey puck! Because the morons who invented DVDs didn't put the actual media in a case, they are rife with scratches and hiccups and brain freezes. There's nothing worse than a stalled DVD movie. Oooo I hate it! Like George Costanza said, important things go in a case. If they had designed DVDS to be in a case, we all would have been a lot better. I pity the libraries who are buying DVDs thinking they'll never wear out. please, they're flushing their money down the toilet.
Like what?
The last VHS incarnation of the OT has an exclusive interview with the actors who played new aunt beru & uncle owen, and a walk around the tattooine set. The Ep II vhs had an exclusive " "Star Wars Connection" feature with Artoo and Threepio telling all about eps 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6. The Ep I widescreen version vhs had another "making of" feature that wasn't on the DVD of Ep I. Of course SW VHSs have features, they want you to buy them too. But no one's got a gun to your head. Rent if you can't abide buying a SW VHS.
VHS's usually have a ton of commercials before the actual movie, which u have to use a minute or two to FF by.
That's not the point, I don't mind a few previews. But as I said, you pop the vhs in the player and it plays automatically, no buttons to press, no menus to find, no choices. It just plays. Set it and forget it. That's not laziness. There's a lot to be said for that design simplicity. I generally just want to watch the movie, I don't care how great a job the effects caterer did on the lobster bisque or any other water-cooler blather the producers can spew.
The DVD is not the be-all end-all for movies, it'll be outmoded soon enough. I cannot argue with the superior sound & video, however, most television sets are not HD, or widescreen. They're just regular old TVs with DVD players hooked up in back, therefore most users of DVDs are not getting superior sound & video, the end product for them is about the same.