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received the following as an email from a customer who had read
our DVD glossary - it shows the lighter side of the DVD debate!
If you have comments please do email us them - Customer
Comment
Dear DVD and Media
I have just looked at your DVD glossary and had to
smile to myself about some of you comments but found them interesting
and helpful
I am of the age when i can remember buying my first
video machine from Comits at just over £850 and went mad at
finding you could buy a pack of three blank cassettes for £60
what an offer. (offer of the year) now five branded ones for £3.50
in Tesco's.
Yes and as for Betamax and VHS i can remember that
as well (or am i supposed to say my dad told me about them) or the
first video camera's yes i was one of the first again to own one
of these fine machine's as well and yes it only weighed 12 Kilo's.
Again like a mug and liking to be one of the first
to buy new things i purchased this Christmas a DVD recorder the
Panasonic DMR-E30 (lead me into a mine field comes to mind).
Firstly I am told use Panasonic DVD's but you try
to buy them at a good price no way, so you start trying other DVD's.
So at first you just go out and buy different brands of DVD to try £70 to £80 later you think there must be a better way.
I have purchased your trial pack after I found you
and now have a list of what will work and what will not in this
machine.
There, your age and experience has got you were you
wanted to get to in the end (I thought) WRONG. I purchased 4 x 25
packs of Bulkpaq because the sample i had worked fine but found
when they arrived 2 packs worked and the other two did not, they
had different batch marks on them but thank god you have a good
returns policy
So now I am ready to record all those videos onto DVD's
and away I go and start recording but then it all starts again they
will not work on other DVD's players yes I did try 3 other machines
and yes I did finish them off. Back to the manual yet again and
find the words "will work in some DVD players" can i win
(no)
Now to the DVD debate bit, i believe that DVD ram will be used to record programs that you only want to watch once
and them record over them and DVD-R will be for the programs you
want to keep I think there is a place for both
I thought that you also might want to know you comment
that Ram gives you 4 hours recording mine give me 12 hours on a
two sided DVD RAM 9.4gb. You also commented that the DVD recorders
cost around £740 mine was £449 then you comment that
you can buy a DVD player for just over £100 well I hired a
car for a week and they offered me a DVD player for £51 including
delivery (and it works) will they be in my cornflakes next month?
Well back to DVD's i decided to R.F.M again (read
the flipping manual) and found a list that said DVD's that work
in this machine, there was listed DVD-R great i thought then i read
the list that would not work in my machine and there it said in
full view Some DVD-R would not work on some other players including
some Panasonic players, were is a man supposed to do.
To finish i must comment that i spoke to a member
of your staff the other day and was surprised to find he was human
and polite.
Regards
A happy customer
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