DVD recorders are just around the corner and will most likely replace VHS.
Pioneers new home DVD recorder is already reviewed in some magazines. It's
pricey ($3,000+) but so were the first CD players.
Local stores have converted much of their VHS pre-recorded inventory to
"bargain bin" status.
VHS HiFi recorders are as low as $59.
DVD discs are almost as easy to mass produce as CDS while VHS prerecorderd
tapes are STILL duped at real-time and have never gotten past 240 lines
resolution (DVDs are 470 lines resolution).
DVD player sales have exceeded all industry predictions. There are already
10,000 titles available on DVD.
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Clendon Gibson" <bsandyman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:55 AM
Subject: [OM] Vinyl -> CD VS Digital <- Film
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| Well Sam, I disagree with your analogy.
|
| The purpose and use of Film is different the purpose
| and use of records or cd's (except where they converge
| on CD-ROMs).
|
| The same is true of the BETA Vs. VHS battle.
|
| Consider this. Will DVD overtake VHS? No. Why Not?
| Because you can't record the superbowl on your DVD
| player. So VCR's are ubiquitous and you can still make
| a living renting or selling VHS tapes.
|
| In short there is a fundamental and obvious advantage
| to VHS over DVD. The same is true of Film. The reverse
| is also true. So each medium will be used where it's
| strengths suggest.
|
| The second difference is in who is buying the stuff.
| When I go to the store and buy a CD, I do so as a pure
| consumer. I take it home listen to it a couple of
| thousand times, and that's it.
|
| When I, or any of the fellow list members buy film, I
| do so as an artist. Right there at the checkout line I
| have made an artistic decision. Hmm, I have a lot of
| light and fast action, I'll buy some 800.
|
| On this list there is a lot of discusion about which
| brand of film, and even which emulsion within a brand
| is the best for this purpose or that purpose.
|
| So the presence of film will be market driven, by
| people that want that artistic decision.
|
| I agree with what has been said by others here on the
| list though, that film prices will go up, and probably
| film availability will go down. After all Kodak and
| others make there bread and butter off of the casual
| shooter. But this is decades off.
|
| Two more additional cents.
|
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