DVD vs. VHS

[Morley]

KennyR wrote:
Quick check, I would like opinions on:

a) What is better quality, DVD or VHS;

b) Whether the difference quality is visible straight away or not.

I know where I stand on this, I just want to guage other people's opinions on the matter.

VHS on a high-end 6-head player may be better than a badly encoded DVD played on a 50€ DVD player. But in normal situations, never.

What I dislike about DVD's is that you cannot eject the disk and easily continue watching later at the point where you stopped, at least I get confused everytime the doorbell rings and I press the "STOP" button. But then maybe my DVD player is a moron, or me. That never happens on VHS :inquisitive:

[Morley]

Not mine. Or I haven't found it yet :roll:

[Morley]

Turambar wrote:
Even my Panasonic Q Gamecube has a limited resume feature (limited in that if you switch the power off you can forget resuming) I believe its becoming pretty standard for players to save your position when you switch it off and give you option to view from that position the next time you play that dvd.

Well, I got curious and fiddled around with my DVD player today, and unlucky me, no resume. Press stop and you're screwed. A friend of mine however, has a DVD player with resume. Aargh. I'll buy a new one soon, it's really a bad player.

Anyhow, did you guys know that quite a lot of todays DVD players contain only an IDE'ish DVD reader and a Linux box with the OS on ROM? Pretty lame, no wonder they give bad picture and sound...