list as many advantages of DVD as you can think of

[George McFly]

How many advantages does DVD have over VHS

the obvious

great video
great audio
picture doesn't degrade over time
sound doesn't degrade over time
multiple audio tracks
can skip from one part of film to another quickly

no rewinding


feal free to add to this list

[MARVEL]

You don't have to get up to change sides like on LD and, no side breaks period. After going through that, layer changes are a breeze. And of course size. LD's were so cumbersome. But you got cool disc art on the jacket and box sets gave you all kinds of goodies.

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Florida State
Florida State
Florida State
WHOOOOO!!!!

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[the narrator]

how bout all the extras like
deleted scenes, documentaries and trailers

[empire3219]

Just a stupid side bar here.

Last Christmas all sorts of people in my town were getting DVD players. It was like the technology was just invented or something. Anyway, a friend of mine who manages a video store here went through the DVD section and put those little "Please Be Kind - Rewind" stickers on all DVD cases. You gotta understand, I basically live in a backwoods, technologically challanged part of the country. And something like 80% of high school graduates leave. So it's an aging population who aren't up with these things. So their out of town relatives buy them the latest things and they don't have any idea of what they have or how to use it at first. So anyway, right after Christmas the DVD rentals at the video store tripled. And the next day he had all these people calling or returning DVD's saying they can't figure out how to rewind the movie they rented.

[Triple HHH]

Dvd has many great advantages, but if I had to list one thing as a gripe, it's those annoying "animated menus" You know, the kind where you press enter and you're treated to some overly elaborate image that takes 10 seconds to finish until it FINALLY lets you get to where you want. Like on the Mummy Returns, the animated menus are ridiculous. I'm like, "Enough already!! I just want to see the trailers, not some stony labyrinth made up of cheesy, bad CGI!"

I like the slim-design of dvd cases. About two dvds fit into one crap-ass VHS tape, so you save a lot of room.

[MARVEL]

How about due to their size portable handheld DVD is not only a possibility but also a reality. couldn't do that with either VHS or LD.

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F-L-O-R-I-D-A S-T-A-T-E
Florida State
Florida State
Florida State
WHOOOOO!!!!

[SeanL]

Advantage of DVD?
It's not vhs!


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Sean

My ever increasing DVD collection

I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country-General George S. Patton

[orko007]

and no rewinding, so im not gettng billed from the hire stores for forgetting to rewind.

[Malkavman]

the portability for me, I have a portable player, and I keep my discs in those CD carry-all wallets, so my 117 movies travel with me. try dragging 117 VHS tapes or LDs everywhere you went, people would look at you like you were nuts.

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"Aren't you dead?" -Kirk, to Spock; Star Trek II

[marty]

the technical perks are all well known, so here's a couple of the "quality of life" perks.

- you can play them on a pc, including notebooks and it still looks like you're doing work

- not everyone has a DVD player yet, so you
don't have everyone trying to borrow your movies