Just think this was the first Hd home video format.

[blukrank]

Originally Posted by sleazypig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS
Before Hd Dvd Before Blu-Ray this was the hope for bringing Hd movies in to the home. It was being developed just when dvd was coming in to its own. Alas nobody even had the tvs then.

I have a D-VHS player and I still use it.It's sitting underneath my Samsung Blu-Ray player. Best VCR that I have ever bought.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by sleazypig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS
Before Hd Dvd Before Blu-Ray this was the hope for bringing Hd movies in to the home. It was being developed just when dvd was coming in to its own. Alas nobody even had the tvs then.

The DF-480 tape has the same storage as a BD50. Even D-VHS was superior to hd-dvd. Maybe that's what all the Sony haters can go to, when hd-dvd is finally completely dead.

[Digital Filmmaker]

D-VHS is definitely a niche format, but the quality is first-rate, nonetheless. It's recording capacity is based on whether you are recording SD or HD, and it is backward-compatible with VHS and S-VHS tapes.

If you are an early, early HD adopter, then you would most likely have this format in your arsenal. It's the only VCR still in my rack, and I still use it for OTA recordings in HD.

[sleazypig]

Originally Posted by Digital Filmmaker

D-VHS is definitely a niche format, but the quality is first-rate, nonetheless. It's recording capacity is based on whether you are recording SD or HD, and it is backward-compatible with VHS and S-VHS tapes.

If you are an early, early HD adopter, then you would most likely have this format in your arsenal. It's the only VCR still in my rack, and I still use it for OTA recordings in HD.

I haven't owned a vcr in a decade I didn't start recording again until i got a dvr through the cable company. I adopted Dvd really early. I just now have heard of Dvhs and I was floored that they can do 1080i on a vhs tape.

[Jim L]

Originally Posted by radagast

The DF-480 tape has the same storage as a BD50. Even D-VHS was superior to hd-dvd. Maybe that's what all the Sony haters can go to, when hd-dvd is finally completely dead.

As I remember it, D-VHS only used MPEG-2 and had a bitrate of 28 mbps.

It looked pretty darn good!