Remember when HD Movies came on VHS tapes?
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Published 2016-04-22
Captured D-VHS Demo Tape showing New York in 1993: • New York City in 1993 in HD - DTheat...
D-Theater tapes can be found on eBay: goo.gl/AfCHUy
A full list of D-Theater titles is on LDDB.com: goo.gl/jGHA82
DVHS on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS
JVC's D-Theater machines: goo.gl/uKMBki
Full specs on the machine shown:
support.jvc.com/consumer/product.jsp?modelId=MODL0…
The machine demonstrated records and plays D-VHS (HS, STD, LS3) S-VHS (SP, EP) S-VHS ET (SP, EP) HiFi VHS (SP, EP) VHS (SP, EP) it doesn't have upscaling. It will output anything over Component or iLink.
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All Comments (21)
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The future is 8K VHS.
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Why Netflix and Chill when you can come right into my D-Theater?
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Fascinating. Widescreen, 1080i, and 5.1 audio could all on a VHS. That's incredible.
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I'm a 51 year old tech nerd and I have never heard of HD on VHS until now!
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HD really makes 1993 look like 2018 with a mod installed
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Wow, I had absolutely no idea this existed. Gotta love when that happens :) Thanks a lot for sharing!
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FYI, this wasn't the first HD VHS. In Japan, they had W-VHS (wide VHS) that was 1080i and was recorded in analog component format to tape (not digital). It came out in 1994. In the late 90's I worked at a public TV station. We had one of these W-VHS players connected to a CRT projector in the main conference room. It was the only way to show HDTV at the time. There were no commercial tape decks or displays out yet. The PBS station used it to WOW donors to hopefully help fund the upgrades needed to do the NTSC to ATSC conversion. I was blown away at the time too. Seeing HD when DVD had only come out a few years earlier was breathtaking. Thanks for the video. Re-living this stuff is fun. Manufacturers have been using tape as a digital bit-bucket for a long time. It's still be used in the computing world to store terabytes of data (tape backup).
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Just imagine watching that New York footage in all its high-quality goodness thinking it was from 2013 or thereabouts, and then the Twin Towers show up.
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50GB on a storage format from 1998 is quite impressive.
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That video of 1993 New York in HD is fascinating, it's like it was recorded yesterday! Having lived through the 90's, you kind of remember things through how you saw them on the TV, blurry or grainy! The high framerate in particular makes the whole thing seem really solid and in the present.
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8:13 notice how it says "DVD" in the upper left text, they didn't even bother changing it to VHS.
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One thing he missed was it was actually possible to record HD from satellite with DVHS. The Dish Network 5000 had an ATSC modulator, that you could feed to a tuner with a FireWire output, and feed that to a DVHS deck. I have a bunch of movies that I recorded from dish network's HBO feed. Sadly my two DVHS decks are not working, so I can't play play them back.
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We could have had HD Movies without the stupid menus, warnings and advertisements?! Damn!
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Had no idea HD Video appeared on VHS, really interesting
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9:58 just as I thought “man that woman is beautiful!” The guy in the ponytail turns around to confirm my thoughts.
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I think it was the only way to archive HD material from US cable or satellite TV back when it was released. It was the VHS format's last stand.
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In some alternate dimension D-VHS was so popular that Sony decided to include a D-VHS player into the PS2 instead of DVD.
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i never thought VHS was capable of 1080 resolution
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See everyone in 4 years when this gets recommended again
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Sweet Jesus 50gb from something released in the late 90s, something we wouldn’t be able to match until dual layer bd in 06. Guess there’s a reason they still use magnetic tape to archive large amounts of data even today.
