lukeskywalker1 Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 UMDs.... are not the wave of the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 UMDs.... are not the wave of the future. Yeah right, next thing you'll tell me is that the PSP is not also a time machine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 The "non degrading" nature of DVDs is a big advantage... I had a few thousand pounds worth of vhs, but they were all degrading pretty bad.. the fact that I should be able to (in theory) keep the movies on my DVDs without degredation forever is a big advantage. And to be honest, although the video is a lot better with dvds over VHS, the major jump for me was going to full on surround sound that made it worth getting a decent sound system for. That and the fact they were in widescreen... widescreen VHS tapes were effectively at far lower resolutions because they were still 576 lines high, but half that was taken up with black bars. I'm a bit of a horder at heart, but I think that this generation is coming too soon after DVDs for me.. it was a shame to basically just bin several hundred VHS tapes (well, actually donate them all to the charity shop) but doing the same to several hundred DVDs after only 5 years would be a complete waste.. I think I'll end up backing them all up onto a hard drive/media centre/HD-DVD or Blueray (but then of course that is slow to do and illegal) and then for the next generation I'm going to go with either digital downloads or something like netflix. Its just too expensive to keep replacing film collections every few years.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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