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Postby anastasiaC » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:30 am

they are a pain to have during a holiday....and you never sit and rewatch what you video taped anyway haha!
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Postby cyprusgrump » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:14 am

anastasiaC wrote:they are a pain to have during a holiday....and you never sit and rewatch what you video taped anyway haha!

Agreed. :lol:

I bought one on a whim many years ago before a family holiday to Florida. The technology was amazing (VHS-C at the time) but I felt uncomfortable using it, missed out on things I wish I’d been involved in (because I was filming) and have never watched the tapes…
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Postby devil » Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:15 am

Amadeo wrote:what happens if tomorrow somebody came up with new revolutionary encoding technique ( i don't know ) ?


MPEG-2 is already being replaced. Most high-def cams use MPEG-2 as an interim measure, but HD-DVD and BluRay discs don't. They use MPEG-4 or H.264 compression and it's possible that standard definition DVDs may go in this direction, as well, although there may be compatibility issues. Why do I say this? Well if you look here, you will see that the players now offer DivX playback. Well, DivX is a high compression implementation of MPEG-4. I think the writing is on the wall that MPEG-2 will be eventually replaced for new applications, in which case the SD DVD, as we know it today, will follow the way of VHS and slowly disappear. What is holding things back is the format war between HD-DVD and BluRay. Until this is settled, most consumers will not invest in either because there will be insufficient economy of scale to bring the prices down.
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Postby Amadeo » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:09 pm

As i said, dvd, hd is out of the question. regarding new models, do you have any opinion ? :?:
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Postby devil » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:30 pm

I'd say, get the best Panasonic you can afford.
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Postby Amadeo » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:33 pm

devil wrote:I'd say, get the best Panasonic you can afford.


what a coincidence, i was thinking the say thing. :P
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Postby G.Man » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:45 pm

Xvid and Divx are great... 4 movies on one DVD... cant argue with that..

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Postby devil » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:05 am

G.Man wrote:Xvid and Divx are great... 4 movies on one DVD... cant argue with that..

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And the quality, especially with fast movements? Yes, I can argue with it.
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Postby G.Man » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:43 pm

No worse than watching on digital satellite (also mpeg4), and for most films thats not an issue...

If the film has been multipass encoded to a decent bit rate and resolution (HDTV) the quality is perfectly good enough for a TV...

Luckily I have a HDTV TV and HDTV Xvid player

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