No VCR's in store in 6 months time.
 

Just seen on lunchtime news that Dixons are to give up selling VCRs.
This due to DVD takeing over.

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David

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"David" wrote in message
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Just seen on lunchtime news that Dixons are to give up

YES!!

... selling VCRs. This due to DVD takeing over.

Ohh.


Az.

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:50:54 GMT, "David" wrote:

| Just seen on lunchtime news that Dixons are to give up selling VCRs.
| This due to DVD takeing over.

Dixons are not everybody. Lidl will sell them for years.

Now if they had a DVD recorder with a hard disk *and* a DVD rewriter, so
that I could watch things recorded on one TV and watch them another.

Oh yes I need *three* of them because competitive scheduling means the
there is nothing on TV for days then I want to watch four things at once.

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Info wrote:
DVD players, (the reason given), do not make
for recorders.

HDD recorders, together with onboard disc
archive facilities will, I guess, be the
decent bet.

I think you are right that the best replacement for VHS would be a hard
disk recorder with a DVD recorder in it. That way I could record
programs I want to watch later to the hard disk, and if I want to keep
it permanently or take it somewhere else to watch, I could stick it on a
DVD.

Of course at the moment I seem to regularly forget to record something,
download it instead, then write it to video CD for posterity...

Steve.

"David" wrote in message
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Just seen on lunchtime news that Dixons are to give up selling VCRs.
This due to DVD takeing over.


Yep - though their sister store Currys is continuing to stock them for the
foreseeable future - nice pre-Christmas advertising for Dixons though...

Steve

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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:17:30 +0000, Stuart Bell wrote:

Remembering when the world's most powerful computers had 256Mb RAM, or
when I paid =A3115 for 16Kb, or when Bill Gates could not conceive of
anyone wanting more than 640Kb, I suspect that in a decade, storing TV
programmes on some solid state device will be quite an economic
proposition.

=A3115 for 16Kb Bloody bargain - How about 100,000+ for 8K? Real, hand
knitted ferrite core memory - IBM 360/44

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Stuart Bell wrote:

I suspect that in a decade, storing TV
programmes on some solid state device will be quite an economic
proposition.

Maybe so, but Aztech was just saying that hard disk will still be *more*
economic.

In a decade we might have HDTV broadcasts for which would fill your
flash device quicker, on the other hand we might have more efficient
codecs that fill it up slower.

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Aztech wrote:

Flash memory is quite indestructible :-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3939333.stm

However, it's expensive, recording one hours worth of compressed TV would set
you back a few hundred quid. Relative to cheap technologies like HD or
optical
discs that will always be the ca

Remembering when the world's most powerful computers had 256Mb RAM, or
when I paid £115 for 16Kb, or when Bill Gates could not conceive of
anyone wanting more than 640Kb, I suspect that in a decade, storing TV
programmes on some solid state device will be quite an economic
proposition.

The capacity of HD storage has risen even more exponentially compared to RAM.

You only have to ask yourself why the iPod uses a micro HD rather than flash
memory, it's a device that is severely constrained in terms of physical size,
power and robustness, something flash is great at yet has failed in this field
due to capacity/price reasons.

A static DVR device in the home is like nirvana compared to what a iPod has to
endure, it has no major limit on power or physical capacity, there's no major
draw to flash memory given that it's amongst the most expensive storage out
there... and DVR's amongst the most demanding in capacity.

Flash may be a nice transitional format for media players, but they all seem to
use HD's at the moment. As for what will replace the HD, that's the question.


Az.

David wrote:
Just seen on lunchtime news that Dixons are to give up selling VCRs.
This due to DVD takeing over.


Its because the staff are scared of the merchandise
"Boss, how much are the horizontal toasters that take the plastic
cartridges"

"Stuart Bell" wrote in message
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Aztech wrote:

The capacity of HD storage has risen even more exponentially compared to RAM.

You only have to ask yourself why the iPod uses a micro HD rather than flash
memory, it's a device that is severely constrained in terms of physical size,
power and robustness, something flash is great at yet has failed in this
field
due to capacity/price reasons.

So far. OTOH, large Flash RAM devices have eclipsed micro-drives below
1Gb in the digital camera market. A Flash iPod is expected real soon
now.

The iPod mini was expected to use flash, but they went with a Hitachi Microdrive
3K4-4, which is electrically compatible with CF. People have been plundering
iPod's to recover this drive for their digital cameras, since they retail for
more than the Mini itself :-

http://www.helixcamera.com/Digital/h...achimicro.html

Az.