Also, buying the DVDs is a better bet because you get the nicer menus and appropriate chapter stops. and on some of those DVDs you may end up with extras.

I despise VHS.

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Not sure if this is what you are asking about or not, if your not talking about transferring the VHS to DVD, Bill go ahead and delete my comments.

Honestly, IMO, some DVD transfers are outstanding, others are very similar or equivalent to VHS quality (Kino Video or some of the Facets releases for foreign stuff/films). VHS sucks cause the tapes are huge and bulky, but I have some stuff on VHS (not available on DVD) that I would easily part with 1/5-1/4 of my DVD collection to keep, if that makes any sense.

I think Hardware or Denver Don said it best in a post I read a little while ago, you don't throw out the VCR, but you don't necessarily always rent VHS.

Personally, I'd go with the combo...(and to restate the previous paragraph) better to have something and not need it versus not having something and need it...but if you are transferring from VHS to DVD thru CPU, quality will be affected, but you'll have more space . Hope this helps...if I've just wasted 60 seconds of your life by pointing out the obvious, I'll try to make it up in other forums on the board.

Cheers,

K.

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Anyhu, it depends (sorry) on the source material they used to make the commercial DVD transfer. And how much effort they put into it.
As this is porn, you can of course be certain of the highest work ethics, and no expense spared transfers.

A shot-on-film classic like Candy Stripers was given special treatment and looks great on DVD.
But there are some shite transfers from badly degraded tapes out there too.

I've transferred the best of my VHS collection to DVD with a hard disk recorder, with no noticeable loss of quality from the VHS.

If VHS was the original format of the movies you want to transfer, and if your copies are in excellent condition, you should be able to get close to the quality you'll see on DVD re-releases. Maybe even better, if the material they had available was not the best.

Get a good quality recorder, and the resulting DVD will look just as good as the VHS.

A recorder with a hard drive has the advantage that you can easily crop the start and end of the movie, and create and edit your own chapter stops before burning it onto DVD-R. And you can make an extra back-up copy, just in case.

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My only take on the matter is that unless the space in your entertainment center is at such a high premium, you are better off getting separate components rather than one that will do both. In general you can get better quality from individual units & if one breaks you can just replace it. In a combination unit, if one breaks then you are stuck with a unit that only half works.

That said, even the loss of a little quality is acceptable to me to have things in a dvd format. The storage space, ability to jump around, & lack of rewinding more than make up for it.

RT

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of couse the quality is miles better and it doesent degrade as fast as tape!

VHS i think is 320*240
DVD is 720*540 ?
so u get more lines which makes it look much more Crisper than ever!
HD is the next step

- - Some one is watching over you

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Some DVDs will not play properly on some DVD-VCR combo units because of anti-piracy measures built into the DVD. With these combo-units, the problem may occur even if you're not trying to record from one medium to the other. The presence of the VCR component is enough to prevent the DVD from playing correctly.

I am far from an expert on these sorts of technical issues, but a search in this forum may show some old threads that provide more information on this problem if you are interested.

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