Maybe you've never put a SINGLE FINGERPRINT on a DVD.
Most players go absolutely wacky.
--- "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
> > vendors and rental shops would not be flocking to
> DVD. VHS cassettes &
> > players have always been a big, huge, clunky,
> temperamental-and-easily-
> > borked, slow-to-set-up PITA. DVD are none of
> those things.
>
> "big, clunky": The size difference is NOT that much.
> "slow-to-set-up": When used for playing
> pre-recorded materials, the setup
> for VCR v DVD is IDENTICAL. All of the differences
> lie in setup needed
> for the "extra" features of VCR (signal input,
> timer, etc.) 'course we've
> seen that setting the clock of the timer crosses
> over the threshold of
> competency of much of the public.
>
> > Notice that nowhere did I mention video quality.
> Napster proved
> > conclusively that nobody cares. ;)
> > Seriously. Superior video is not driving the
> market at all.
>
> Very true.
>
> But abused DVD produces a better signal than abused
> VCR, just as
> abused audio CD produces better sound than abused
> cassette tape.
>
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Received on Mon Sep 09 2002 - 14:07:00 BST