Will DVD-R make my nice (but expensive) collection redundant?

[Tob]

No one bothers to tape video to video as the degradation in picture and sound is so bad but when DVD-R comes along, why should I shell out £15 for a DVD when I can rent it and copy it?

Thinking about this makes me a bit disilusioned with spending £3000+ on DVDs. Should I stop buying DVDs now as I could be effectively wasting my money?

Sorry to sound so miserable! :(

[stephen]

It is bound to reduce the number of DVDs people buy, but I still bought plenty of VHS tapes when I could have recorded them off Sky.

[dochall]

Have you had a look at the price of DVD-R. They are around £15 at the moment. This may come down as more people buy them but not for a while and I believe that the price may being kept artificially high as a sop to the Film industry.


As a collector rather just a watcher I would perfer to have the original. I don't see how it is any different from CD's which I have quite a few as opposed to copied tapes (which I probably haven't had since I started a job)

Alternatively yes your collection is now worthless. I take it off your hands for £5.50 and packet of polos

:D

[rsykes2000]

Originally posted by dochall
Have you had a look at the price of DVD-R. They are around £15 at the moment. This may come down as more people buy them but not for a while and I believe that the price may being kept artificially high as a sop to the Film industry.

price has been dropping steadily recently. 3.50 pounds now each - http://www.business-ecommercesoftware.co.uk/business/svpcomm/Online_Catalogue_DVD_R_Discs_16.html

[APPRIA40WR]

If (when -on a standard PC) it's possible to copy a DVD and it's the same disc essentially then I'd prolly buy them. I'm only bothered about the movie at the end of the day but I wouldn't buy a pirate disc just to save £5 if the quality isn't up to what I'm used to.

[kcxdev]

wouldn't this just be the same situation as with mp3's and CD's? or very similar anyway. Don't think cd sales has gone down dramatically.

[dochall]

Originally posted by rsykes2000


price has been dropping steadily recently. 3.50 pounds now each - http://www.business-ecommercesoftware.co.uk/business/svpcomm/Online_Catalogue_DVD_R_Discs_16.html

Bloody hell. Thanks for the link. I own an A03 but am not really using dvd media this changes that.

[Mr Nice]

But at the moment, all writable DVD tech is limited to single layer, and since most movies come on RDSL's...