Are DVDs a Thing of the Past?
Saturday, November 20th, 2004
This weekend is going to go by fast. This morning I woke up early to go get a video camera that my mother wants to take along to India to give to her family. Its a Panasonic with 700x Zoom but uses VHS-c tapes. I got it for < $150 so which is a pretty good deal (original price is $229). My friend Sunny was working at the store and he was saying how VHS tapes are going to be extinct soon. The only reason that my mother wanted this specific video camera was because she has tons of VHS-c tapes so we wouldn’t really need to go out and buy those.
Sunny was suggesting to get the Samsung that requires hi-8 tapes. Even though those are the same retail value as the VHS-c tapes, they must be the newer tapes in the market. He went to on say that its good to convert all of your VHS tapes to DVDs so it might be good to buy a dual VHS/DVD recorder.
But I am reluctant to buy a DVD recorder just because I have heard that DVDs are going to be extinct as well. Has anybody else heard that? I had read somewhere that Microsoft’s Bill Gates was saying that there is even a newer technology that will be coming out that will be replacing DVDs. So is there really a point to even keep them any longer?
If anybody has any insight on that, then do comment and let me know. Technology changes so fast, sometimes its hard to know what to buy and what not to buy.
We are really living in the fast age.
Alvida. Jai Mata Di.
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