orpheum

I simply dont trust dvds.On numerouse occasions i have come back home to find that the film has not been recorded and the message "error" shown.Furthermore it then makes the disc faulty as you cannot finalise it so this means that you cannot play it on any other DVD.If there is anything that i want to make sure of recording i will always use VHS

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samkydd

I haven't bought a DVD recorder simply because I have two VHS machines set up plus another two in reserve, and so many tapes that I could build an extension on to the house with them. I marvelled at the technology of taping programmes when it first came out and twenty six years later I'm still in awe of it, so I'm sticking with recording on to tape. It does the job okay, and you're guaranteed of watching your programme from where you stopped it the day before, whereas with DVD one accidental touch of a button and it goes back to the start.

These newspaper free DVDs are the worst because they don't have chapters, so if you get a speck of dust on the disk or hit the wrong button on the remote you're back to the start every time, and you have to fast forward for hours until you get to where you left off! There is nothing more annoying and nine times out of ten you give up in frustration.

But the marketing machine is all powerful and so if I don't keep up to date then I must be missing out on something, I don't know what it is but there must be something surely!

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JohnB_Toronto

Sounds like you maybe put it through several years worth of normal use before the warranty ran out. I'm the same - I wear out my players far faster than the average user (I suspect most of us do). This is a pretty good argument for using a quality brand name that stands behind its warranties.

orpheum

While i agree with samkydd DVDs have one important advantage.You can take a DVD player with you anywhere.So i am able to use it in the car as an MP3 player.When i go away i take a few discs with me and watch them in any spare time that i have.So i record my old tapes on to DVD and can enjoy these old films if there is nothing on the hotel tv set.So in that respect portable DVD players are a godsend.

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samkydd

I'd agree with you there, when I work away I take a laptop and a few DVDs plus my trusty Freecom USB plug-in so I can connect the hotel room TV aerial lead and get all the Freeview channels on the computer as well. I can also record from the Freecom gadget on to my hard disk, which is sometimes useful, but there are usually so many repeats that you never seem to miss a programme or film.

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orpheum

Has anyone out there bought the Panasonic duel DVD hard drive recorder.If so is it easy to use.I am tthinking of buying this as it has 400 hours of memory on which you record.
The big problem with VHS machines is that they are mechanical and sooner or later they will break down and will wear out.I have recently had to get my Panasonic dual VHS?DVD machine repaired and i am concerned that sooner rather than later it will conk out altogether.

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eric7885

With high definition tv arriving,will you be able to use the vhs machines on the telly? As for dvd players,many are coming out with high definition output which means that you can play your regular dvd,s through the high definition channel without any problems. But,do any of the vhs players have that feature? Here in Canada large shops,such as Wal-Mart are selling them for around 20 dollars or so. Thrift shops are loaded with them.

image45

Yes you always need a quality brand

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image45

Well over in the UK I have only seen DVD players with the HDMI port that is needed for a link in high definition, a VHS machine would not be considered for such a conection in the current market

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cletus awreetus

I think that's right. Rightly or wrongly, VHS is considered past technology

samkydd

I have a spare TV which is about ten years old, and so even if I can no longer record on VHS in the future I can at least watch my existing tapes. This doesn't happen too often unless I get the 'flu or something equally nasty to keep me bedridden for a few days, and of course most of my VHS films I don't have duplicated on DVD, so why throw them out? I always had to make sacrifices to afford to buy some of the films back in the 80s, and so I value them as much as my old vinyl LPs and singles.

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cletus awreetus

Good point!

eric7885

I notice that some of the new dvd recorders,those that do not record in high definition but have a high definition connection outlet to let you view your current dvd's through the high definition telly channel. If one was to connect the vcr through the input part of the dvd recorder,would the vcr picture play through the dvd recorder on the high definition channel without distortion? I am going to purchase a new dvd recorder in the near future, i will try connecting my old vhs machine to the dvd recorder and see what happens.

mark windley

thats the way i have my old vhs recorder connected to the dvd recorder
and works quight good ....mark.w

image45

I dare say it does work in the same way that a S-VHS or scart conection works except that they are analogue connections. The only thing would be that you could not run HD upscaling from the analogue tape were a DVD scource would allow this 1080i enhancement.

At the end of the day I fully aprove of old and new linked up. I currently run with two VHS machines linked to all my digital set up. At the end of the day VHS is just another format, sadly just one thats deemed to be old and fadding out of use anymore.

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