I’m glad someone had the guts to tackle this issue!
July 30th, 2008 at 11:09am Will Pfeifer
The political cartoonist at THE ONION is the only one willing to address the touchy topic of DVDs replacing VHS tapes…
In all seriousness, is there a single advantage of tapes over discs? You can argue LPs are better than CDs, but DVDs seem to have it over tapes in every way: better picture, easier use, more bonus features — heck, they’re even smaller and easier to store. Whenever I actually have to put a tape into my DVD/VCR, I can’t believe I’m dealing with such archaic technology. It feels like I’m turning the crank on a Model T!
 Of course, now we have to replace them all with Blu-Rays. D’oh!
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1. Greg | July 30th, 2008 at 11:48 am
There is one advantage to VHS over DVD… they’re more durable.
I borrow a lot of movies from the library, and a lot of times the dvds will skip, or get stuck at a certain part. Never have that problem with the VHS tapes.
Aside from that, though, DVD is the hands up winner.
2. LD | July 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
The only thing I can think of, is DVD players can be finicky about playing a dirty or scratched disc and that can cause some frustration. Especially if you rent DVDs.
But it’s been a long time since I’ve had to adjust the tracking on a VHS tape though…so I’m not sure which is more frustrating.
Just wait til we are all playing movies off a solid state drive. Whats this? The file is corrupted?
3. Brian M | July 30th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
LD - THAT is why downloading/drive-storage of movies is going to take a long time to catch on, if ever completely. People want to have the product in their hands. They want to know that I HAVE this item I purchased, and it can’t just disappear if a file is corrupted or deleted somehow.
4. Kevin Haas | July 30th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Check out this link: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/historic_blockbuster_store_offers
It gives more from the onion on “archaic” ways of renting and watching movies.
There isn’t any language or content that I need to warn about before you link to this video, but I will warn you that you may want to avert your eyes from the Harold & Kumar ad at the end of it.
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