DVD vs VHS. 

As you all may know, the format DVD has come in full force to us all. But, is the DVD format really that good? 

We question our editor, to find the answer,



DVDs have been subject to different zones. If you live in the United States, or Canada zone 1 applies. If you live in Europe, zone 2 applies, just to give a few examples. This because there really are apperantly different productions for each region. DVDs are expensive. DVD players are even more expensive. Did you make sure the DVD you just bought was for your region? 

These problems and more, have left the DVD market questionable. But probably the most important thing of all:(?) Why the freakin hell hasn't anybody made the option to record from VHS to DVD available yet? Can somebody tell me that please? We have burners don't we? We have DVD CDs, and software for recording video. So what the heck is the problem? 

The problem is the copyright issue. Very many years back, the VHS also had the same problem. Companies were very reluctant of including a recording option on VCRs. Even so, the tapes back then were only 30 and 60 minutes each. So to even think about recording a movie was out of the question. But with every problem, there is a universal sollution: Time. Today, almost very home has a VCR. With tapes being 5 hours, or the option of even more hours crammed on one tape. Yes, the options to record your own TV leasure are today limitless. But don't we want to put these to DVDs so they won't deteriarate?

So there is the problem. DVDs are now a golden age for commercial cooperations world wide. There is no option to record, and "halleluja for that." But when the day comes, be sure, that the DVD will take over were the VHS left off. If of course the software isn't released by Microsoft. Maybe it won't even come to that, since Digital Television will have taken over already. We can only look forward to the future. Till then, long love VHS. 

Yours:

Christian Lowensprung