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RE: Some DVD bargains if you're interested, including DVDR!


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  • Subject: RE: Some DVD bargains if you're interested, including DVDR!
  • From: "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:28:59 +0100
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Title: RE: [ukha_d] Some DVD bargains if you're interested, including DVDR!
That's a bloody good idea!
 
Hmmm - should I talk to SonicBlue tomorrow? Or should I have a chat with the Comet category manager and get him to :-)
 
M.
-----Original Message-----
From: Calum Morrell [mailto:calum@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sun 07/07/2002 21:22
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Some DVD bargains if you're interested, including DVDR!

* drochaid laughs at the shortsighted twillops

surely the argument on whether PVR or DVD-* is preferable is irrelevant?

what we should be asking [IMHO of course] is when are they going to stop pissing about and give us a PVR with built in DVD-* ?

options to record to HD or DVD on an overview and per program basis ... options to move a program on HD to DVD and vice versa

the technologies are highly compatible, and really shouldn't be seen as competitors

now .. who wants to be first to say I'm talking bollocks?

On 7 Jul 2002 at 21:09, Kenneth Watt wrote:

>
> Yes and no Mark.
>
> The advantage in a œnormalconsumer™s eyes is that the DVDR format is
> portable to other locations, a PVR by its nature is not and when
> discussing the likes of TiVo with people that are not as tech
> orientated as we are this is the one thing that kills the argument in
> their favour. Personally, I can live with a PVR and indeed do, but
> when some relative asks me to record something it™s a pain in the ass
> to do it and the quality, even from S-VHS is not brilliant, but then
> I can™t use S-VHS cassettes because the vast majority of people I
> know do not have a VHS deck capable of playing them back.
>
> However, most of them do have a DVD deck that is fairly recent, so
> suits me, suits them. ;)
>
> Remember also that most consumers know what a VHS deck is, they know
> what a DVD deck is but many have not got the first clue what a PVR
> is.
>
> K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 July 2002 20:56
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Some DVD bargains if you're interested,
> including DVDR!
>
> LOL - No :-)
>
>
>
> Seriously, though - do we think DVD-(some recordable format) is going
> to beat PVR technology?
>
>
>
> Personally, I think that PVR will win in the consumer space.)
>
>
>
> (Jason - please comment here, particularly if you disagree - I'd far
> rather have someone eloquent and opinionated arguing against me than
> 100 yes-men !)
>
>
>
> M.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Jason Lee [mailto:jasonjlee@xxxxxxx]
>     Sent: Sun 07/07/2002 18:55
>     To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx>     Cc:
>     Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Some DVD bargains if you're interested,
>     including DVDR!
>
> >Philips are being *very* aggressive about it and if you look around
> at
> > DVDR VCR replacement machines it would appear that they lead the
> field
> > as it stands and now we have the second generation of those machines
> > which look to be a hell of a lot better than the first ones.
> Although
> > that's always the way with new technology isn't it?
>
> Yeah, and would we change that for the world? :)
>
> J
>
>
>
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