From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: is laserdisc _really_ rob
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:28:30 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Dec31.4246.20919@dosgate> "tony camara" <tony.camara@canrem.com> writes:
>This laserdisc talk alway's maeke's me wonder . Correct me if i'm wrong
>someone but is laser not only roughly 300 lines of res . How about s-vhs
>with 400 lines since s-vhs is better quality then why would anyonw buy
>laser ? Is it because of durability ? It's the only one i can think of
>Besides for sound quality . There is no no no real software around so
>far for laser . They tried about ten year's ago to push laser and it
>died a quick death so anyone planning on buying laser forget it . Once
>we are able to record on laserdisk then this will definitly dominate the
>market . The technology is already available we just have to wait for
>prices to come down to earth .
>
You're wrong. Laser discs offer 425 lines of resolution. Comparatively
the same as S-VHS. People buy laser discs primarily for the picture and
sound quality, as well as the durability. Also, most movies are now
being offered on laser in their original aspect ratio ("Letterboxed" or
"widescreen") which is a big plus to anyone who REALLY cares about
watching a movie the way it was INTENDED to be seen. As for your comment
about laser discs not dominating BECAUSE they don't record: it's rather
flawed. CDs are a HUGE market and you can't record on THOSE can you?

>   I also keep hearing about the life of video tape . Why is everyone
>so worried about it ? The video tape will definitly outlive two or three
>vcr's . Mind you ofcourse this is under normal use . If you negelct
>anything no matter what it is you cann't not expect anything but a sure
>death .
>
	You're right about the tape ITSELF outliving several VCRs (I can
attest to that), but tapes get eaten accidentally, they get dropouts,
the dynamic range in color and sound is not even close to a laser disc.
TRUST ME on this, I've been collecting movies for many years, and until
I got my LD player in 1989, I was very disappointed in the quality of
videotapes, but at the time it was all you could get until LDs started
picking up again in 1988.

>  I work in a video store we will be making our tenth aniversary in 1993
>. We stock just over 10,000 titles in a 2500 square foot space . Let me
>tell you NO ONE'S TAPES ARE GOING TO TAKE MORE ABUSE THAN OUR'S . If the
>machine's are working properly no problems. The tapes we bought ten
>year's ago wich got alot alot alot of playing still look very good and
>again this is under the worst of conditions  .
>
It's amazing that YOUR tapes look as good as they did 10 years ago, and
my local video store's tapes look like absolute shit. Really,you get the
usual rolling lines for 3-5 minutes which show that the tpae has been
eaten, worn, and generally misused. I never found a VHS tape that looked
as good as a laser disc and never, NEVER will.

>       So everyone stop complaining about the life of you're tapes just
>don't worry about it . They will probably live longer than the two of us
>
>
	And our laser discs will live longer than that :)

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From: kjb@hpsgrt1.sgp.hp.com (Joo-Beng KOH)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:14:28 GMT
Subject: SVHS questions
Organization: APCD, Hewlett-Packard Singapore