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To: Ed's Head who wrote (14261)4/21/1997 1:31:00 PM
From: DiViT   of 50808
 
I don't think consumer DVD Video Recorders (DVD-VR) will hit the mainstream in '98.

1. Recording traditional broadcasts has no quality benifits. Garbage in Garbage out, plus you need a cheap MPEG2 encoder.

2. It's possible to record Digital broadcast directly to the DVD disk without an encoder if you can intercept the stream at the DBS receiver before it's uncompressed. However, there's undoubtedly a copyright issue (read delays).

3. VCR's enabled recording for the first time ever. That's why it took off. Without DVD-VR you still have a method to record (VHS).

4. Uncompressing the recompressing MPEG results in a loss of quality.

IMHO: I think when the issues around capturing the broadcast (wireless, satellite, cable) digital video feed in it's compressed form is worked out, you'll see the explosion in DVD-VR. Before then it will exist in some highend form.
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