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To: Kibby who wrote (48575)	2/8/2000 10:16:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Recordable DVD will have pent-up demand to deal with.................. e-town.com POLL: BYE-BYE VCR Etown.com readers hungry for recordable DVD 2/7/2000 By the editors of etown.com NEW YORK, NY, February 7, 2000 -- The VCR's 25-year domination of home video recording may soon be over, if etown.com readers have any say in the matter. And recordable DVD seems to be the VCR's heir apparent. In a recent etown.com Poll, we asked what technology you'd prefer for your video recording. Fifty-seven percent of respondents huzzahed "The King is dead! Long live recordable DVD!" Why? "DVD [recordable] has three major things going for it," explains Eric George of San Antonio, TX. "One, a fairly familiar format, two, unlimited storage capacity, three, it is quickly becoming a universal format, which is what we seriously need (i.e. DVD movies, DVD-Audio and DVD-ROM)." You also seriously need an etown.com DVD opener, which we'll send you for championing DVD. Many respondents also like DVD as a replacement for the VCR, because DVDs don't fade over time as tape does. But the choice seemed to come down to DVD-R (or DVD+R, if you prefer) and PVR (Personal Video Recorder), hard disk drive recorders such as TiVo and Replay, which finished a distant second, with 18.6 percent of the nods. "Recordable DVD has all the great features and advantages that PVR has over tape, and it has three great advantages over PVR," Don Lemna of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, points out. "First, there is no limit on the amount of programming that can be recorded. Second, recordings can be kept indefinitely. Third, it can also function as a DVD player for prerecorded DVDs and CDs." And the etown.com DVD opener we're going to send you can also open both DVDs and CDs. "I'd definitely go for recordable DVD," agrees fellow Northlander Steve Biggs of Scarborough, Ontario. "Not only is it (hopefully) backwards compatible, it's easier to cart around than a hard drive. And any form of tape is just too 'blah!' No true DVD fan should be caught dead with tape!" And no true DVD fan, like Steve, would be caught dead without an etown.com DVD opener.