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Originally Posted by Sandy G
I graduated college in 1979, moved home, & later, moved to Knoxville, TN. I bought my 1st VHS machine-A Panasonic PV-1100 about June, & my dad ponied up for a copy of "Patton". I stuck w/VHS til the bitter end-I bought a Super VHS machine several yrs back, but never really checked out the "Super" part of it.
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If it was/is a s-vhs-ET deck and not just S-VHS, then it can record S-VHS quality on normal NON-s-vhs tapes.....I have a few like that, and got them a few years before good DVD-R and DVR machines started appearing at the thrifts. I recorded one test program on a tape in normal and in S-VHS-ET mode for a couple minutes a piece and as soon as I played back the A/B test I shelved my old normal VHS decks, and started recording almost everything on that ONE S-VHS-ET machine (bought more when I could).
Once I got a DVD recorder it was a more gradual transition.....I archived in both formats for awhile since both had their drawbacks (I HATE line dropouts with VHS, and I also HATE compression artifacts in DVD).....The turning point came when our cable company did something in their system back end that significantly increased the digital artifacts entering out analog cable....When that happened the BROADCAST artifacts became worse and more common than the artifacts DVD introduced. At that point I became stuck with compression artifacts no matter what so why live with tape line drop out too.....I went DVD only and have not looked back (except in rare cases where I ran out of disk space at bad times, since tape will always occupy rack space, even if only to play back).