video vs dvd

[tigerthecat]

is it just me - but I like videos best (I have both) you can stop it and return to the exact spot you left it (minutes, days or weeks later) I know thay take up a lot of room but you can't scratch them and make them useless either.

[chazza]

On my DVD player you can press stop, turn the machine off and when you turn it back on again and press play it continues from the same point, weeks later.

The quality of recording just does not compare, I would say you are definitely in the minority in prefering videos!

[commoner]

Hi Tig..I also have both and as I am a little deaf (my wife says totally deaf ;-)) and because my Panasonic SVHS recorder automatically records the teletext pages, including subtitles, for that alone I must go for the Video tape recorders over DVD.....The quality is not the same by a mile but the subtitles are great and I wouldn't be without that feature..........commoner ;-)

I know the Freeserve digital boxes can record subtitles on DVD but have too many other recording limitations...Yes, it's video tape for me at present.

[Robert G]

Sorry, Chazza, but that doesn't work once you (or someone else) plays a different DVD in the meantime. At least not on mine, it doesn't. The machine does the memorising but only if playing is later resumed without the disc drawer being opened and another disc loaded. With a tape, it's the tape which 'remembers' where it got to.

Commoner: I. too, have a Panasonic SVHS recorder! Can you tell me how to make it record off-air in SVHS mode, please? I have some SVHS blank tapes but the definition of the recorded material is no better than the VHS recordings. There must be something I'm not doing!

[rojash]

Robert G, I could be wrong about this, but my understanding of the difference between VHS and SVHS is that the former record a composite video signal, wherease the latter record RGB and luminance separately (thats why an Svideo lead has more connectors than a video lead). As the broadcast signal is composite video, the quality has already been lost by the time it reaches the recorder.

[Bob A Job]

Robert G.

My DVD player remembers the 'mid point' of dozens of discs at the same time. sometimes i stick a movie on and realise i was half way through it last month!!!!

[Toureman]

If the only reason you prefer videos is because you can start watching them at the same place you left them you are completly missing the reason to have a DVD player.

If you get a decent DVD player, not a �30 woolworths one, with a good surround sound system properly set up you would never watch another video!

To get a good one with surround sound would cost about �350 but it will transform your viewing pleasure.

[commoner]

Sorry tiger if we seem to have gone off subject here but to reply to Robert..I am not sure what you mean by "record off-air in SVHS mode" The term record off-air just escapes me.....but I can say that recordings in SVHS on the correct tapes are far superior to the ordinary VHS recordings.........

BTW have the Panasonic NV-HS830B connected using a Scart cable on AV2 ...........I usually (after making sure it is in SVHS mode and I have an SVHS tape in the machine) usually press the Videoplus button enter the number and when sure it is set as I want it press the little red Timer button which puts the recorder into standby mode...it is a great machine and it also talks to my LG RH7500 DVD recorder perfectly and I can copy tapes to DVD etc...........hope this is what you need to help............commoner

[Robert G]

Apologies, Tigerthecat, but hopefully this will be the last hijacking of your question.

Rojash: Thanks, that's what I thought.

Bob a Job: That's brilliant. I don't think my player has that capability.

Toureman: I have an expensive, but early, model. High quality, high spec, but perhaps lacking in advanced memory features such as Bob a Job's machine.

Commoner: I meant taping broadcast TV programmes in SVHS (which I receive via cable). I, too, have a Panasonic DVD recorder and, yes, it makes excellent copies of VHS and SVHS video tapes. All interconnections are either digital coax or Scart to Scart.

To all: Basically, I think I've not been able to make the best use of my SVHS recorder.

Thanks for your answers.

[tigerthecat]

I love the hi jacking - and all your responses :-)