{"id":587,"date":"2008-08-21T18:34:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T07:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:08:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:08:57","slug":"vhs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"VHS Help!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independently of each other, my brother and my daughter have both suggested that I should do a pictorial comparison of VHS to DVD to Blu-ray. I think it&#8217;s a smashing idea and I&#8217;ve got the technical capabilities to do it. Except for one problem: I&#8217;ve only got a few VHS tapes, and none of them match Blu-rays, nor are they likely to do so in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>So, on the wild assumption that I actually have readers out there, especially Australian ones, do any of you have a pre-recorded VHS tape of any movie that is available on Blu-ray? That you could allow me to have, or at least borrow for a few days? The ideal tape would be of a fairly recent movie (eg. from the 1990s), and one that hasn&#8217;t been played to death, thereby allowing a reasonable representation of VHS quality (such as it was). For example, something like &#8216;The Fifth Element&#8217; would be ideal.<\/p>\n<p>I am in the process of assembling a full list of Blu-ray discs available in Australia, along with a list of forthcoming releases. It is still quite incomplete, but such as it is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/he\/bluraylist\/index.htm\">it is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;ve done further Blu-ray comparisons on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/he\/bdreviews\/robocop.htm#comparo\">Robocop<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/he\/bdreviews\/phantom.htm#comparo\">Phantom of the Opera<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/he\/bdreviews\/panslabyrinth.htm#comparo\">Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth<\/a>. From the last one here is an intriguing comparison, which reveals quite clearly the lower resolution of the colour components in DVD video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/he\/bdreviews\/graphics\/pancomp6.jpg\" alt=\"Detail from Pan's Labyrinth: Blu-ray vs DVD\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independently of each other, my brother and my daughter have both suggested that I should do a pictorial comparison of VHS to DVD to Blu-ray. I think it&#8217;s a smashing idea and I&#8217;ve got the technical capabilities to do it. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}