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Originally Posted by Electronic M
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).
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You know I haven't had much of an issue with digital artifacts in DVD's, provided the transfer is of good quality.
Now if the transfer is shitty, that's a whole 'nother ballgame.
High bitrate video stored on a memory card beats DVD and Blu ray hands down however.