Which do you like?

[Indiana_Jones]

Wanted to watch a move last night, own the VHS and DVD, and I thought it'd be fun to watch the VHS. I like the little crackles you can see on the screen sometimes and the full screen is cooler then the widescreen at times. Just good to take a little step back in time lol.

So what do you like to use? DVD or VHS?

-Indy

[Waylander]

Those New fangled 8inch by 8 inch laser disk. Look like a jumbo sized floppy disk. That's what I use.

[Sparky Bills]

I dont own a VHS player.
We got a PS2 and an Xbox, so can only watch DVD's

[Eurygnomes]

Somewhere in the boxes that are strewn around our house at present, are three VHS machines. However, there are only two of us living there. And we each have a DVD player too. ANd there was one left there by previous tenant. Soo...we're hooked up digitally man...

But some of my stuff is ONLY on VHS...

[placidfemme]

We prefer DVD's... because we don't have a video player

*has 3 or 4 of my fav movies on VHS and can't watch them*

[matthewt]

I have a dvd recorder with a 160Gb hard disk. Means I can record TV like a normal video recorder but I can hold anywhere up to 200 hours on the hard drive. Once I've watched it I just deleted the recording. No tapes, no delays, no hassle. Also means I can record a program and start watching it while it's still recording. Lots of other handy features so we wouldn't live without it now.

I hardly watch "live" tv any more. Just record everything and watch it when the kids are in bed and we have time to watch it. Quite often we start at 8pm with the news and slowly catch up the night. Because it has a DVD recorder built in I've used it to burn all my 8mm cam-corder tapes onto DVD.

In terms of movies I mainly watch DVD's for widescreen, 5.1 sound and picture quality.

[bugjuice]

I prefer DVD cos the quality is often sharper (bit of perfectionism coming out there), and I like the extra features often on DVDs like outtakes or makings etc. Plus the sound quality can be pretty awesome with the right set up.. but I don't have surround yet..

[Beemer]

I have a dvd recorder with a 160Gb hard disk. Means I can record TV like a normal video recorder but I can hold anywhere up to 200 hours on the hard drive. Once I've watched it I just deleted the recording. No tapes, no delays, no hassle. Also means I can record a program and start watching it while it's still recording. Lots of other handy features so we wouldn't live without it now.

Ooh, I'd like one of those! We had an old VCR and only owned one or two DVDs (won them or got them free with books, etc.) but then the VCR died so we decided to replace it with a combo VCR/DVD player. Because we were broke, we got one through Fly Buys - not the model they have now, the one before it. It's a Samsung, so thought it would be okay, but it's crap! The controls are hard to figure out, the manual worse than useless, you can't programme it to record the same programme at the same time every week or day, and the time elapsed function seems to zero itself every time you turn it off - so you end up rewinding the tape to the beginning and back to where the last programme ended just to be sure how much room you have left! I hate it! As for quality, the only DVD we have watched is a Crusty Demons one so it doesn't really compare to a movie!

[Wolf]

Have shit-loads of VHS tapes but until recently we were without a VHS player, got an expanding collection of DVDs and I want to get everything i have on tape on DVD as I prefer widescreen and the picture quality - as a for instance, in the fire swamp in Princess Bride, you can scarcely see a thing in places as it's too dark and it wasn't til i got it on DVD that I noticed you could see sand stuck to their faces after the encounter with the lighning sand - the resolution and light level of the VHS copy was not sufficient to show it. Batman on VHS was a nightmare - night-time streets of Burton's dark and dingy Gotham City and a guy dressed in black - couldn't make out what was happening a lot of the time...

[matthewt]

Ooh, I'd like one of those! We had an old VCR and only owned one or two DVDs (won them or got them free with books, etc.) but then the VCR died so we decided to replace it with a combo VCR/DVD player.

Once the hard drive DVD recorders drop in price (say 1-2 years) that will really be the end of VCR. Provided you can dub onto a DVD then it's all good.

Sky are bringing out a recorder with a 160Gb HD and 2 digital tuners built in. Sounds great but without the DVD writer you can't get anything off the unit.

[Waylander]

Sometime soon I will find an adaptor for the second monitor output on my computer to AV cables (the Yellow, red and white) so that I can run all video from my laptop on my TV and have a universal region dvd player easy.

[TerminalAddict]

I have a dvd player that rarely get used, and a VHS somewhere in storage.

I have a tivo recorder .... kicks the arse outta DVD recorder ..
and I have a DVI and VGA input in the telly so the HT PC (mac mini) gets plugged in to watch DivX or Xvid, or High Res DVD

[Big Dave]

Huh? What Sky Sport channel was it on?

[phaedrus]

I have a dvd recorder with a 160Gb hard disk. Means I can record TV like a normal video recorder but I can hold anywhere up to 200 hours on the hard drive. Once I've watched it I just deleted the recording. No tapes, no delays, no hassle. Also means I can record a program and start watching it while it's still recording. Lots of other handy features so we wouldn't live without it now.

I hardly watch "live" tv any more. Just record everything and watch it when the kids are in bed and we have time to watch it. Quite often we start at 8pm with the news and slowly catch up the night. Because it has a DVD recorder built in I've used it to burn all my 8mm cam-corder tapes onto DVD.

In terms of movies I mainly watch DVD's for widescreen, 5.1 sound and picture quality.

good isn't it. what software do you use? my favourite is mythtv

[Drunken Monkey]

VHS doesn't support dolby digital 5.1, so watching scratchy tapes would make 4 of my speakers expensive vase holders.
I hate it when the tracking goes out on old VCRs as well.
Death to VHS!!!!