Re: Apex dvd player

From: gothika (Vampyres_at_nettaxi.com)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:17:13 -0500

On 26 Jun 2004 04:28:50 GMT, laseranddvdfan@aol.com (LASERandDVDfan)
wrote:

>>You're forgetting S-VHS. And for the matter of 5.1 most still don't
>>have it on their main system never mind the secondary system they'll
>>be viewing the dub copy on.
>
>You get higher luma resolution with S-VHS over regular VHS, but you still use a
>chroma-under-luma encoding scheme for the color and all the warts inherent with
>that. In short, you still lose out on quality.
>
Still you must go back and read again. The difference is not
discernable on th e average home tv.
>Besides that, if a DVD is always handled like a record, you will not have
>problems with damage. It's easy to handle DVDs like this, too. It suprises
>me, amuses me, and frightens me why there are people that make such a big deal
>out of having to do something that simple to ensure that their investment will
>last. This simply shows me just how lazy and ignorant people can be.
>
You're stuck in you single point of view go back and read my post
again.
>As for 5.1, you'd be surprised just how many people have the capability to
>reproduce that kind of audio. Anyone who's able to get a home-theatre-in-a-box
>can enjoy 5.1 in Dolby Digital and DTS, and there are many systems that are
>fairly decent which are very affordable that can give you this capability. -
>Reinhart

Yeah! I've seen such crap in the retail outlets. A kit form of a5.1
theatre is mostly crap with compromises inherent.
You can't honestly say that a small polystyrene box you can hold in
your hand is actually a sub woofer.
And the tiny ass cubes they call mid/highs that are used for the front
and rear stereo channels are even worse.
True you and I can build a killer 5.1 system for less, but most
consumers don't have the knowhow or desire to spend all the time
required to build it themselves.
In order to have quality THX certified QUALITY sound in their dens the
consumer is looking at a couple of thousand bucks for an out of the
box solution.

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