A dvd costs more than a vhs tape why is this.?
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DVDs cost more for the same reason you pay more for CDs than for vinyl and cassettes, even though they cost less to make.  \n\nIt's pure corporate greed.  They had a new product and could make up any price they wanted, even though they could have sold them for less than VHS.\n\nIf you're willing to live without all the "special tricks" of DVDs, buy VCDs instead.  They cost less and they play the same way VHS did, a linear view from start to finish.
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There's a software called DVD Copy Plus.
697616
Why not just tape it off the program tonight and burn it to DVD ?
1157834
Just retail price... DVD's aren't really a commodity these days, no matter what the show..
36263
evidently only a edited version is available on VHS. Too bad...try ebay
1107530
I download and share with anyone who wants it. I don't make money off of it. Am I breaking the law? I do the same thing with movies. Music and movies cost way to much to buy from the stores. Blank discs are cheap. When will big companies wake up and realize it is time to lower the costs?
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you prob have a dvd player but not a recorder
504544
All of them are currently not avalible on dvd vhs
47182
The Hollywood industry makes it hard to save DVDs to the computer to make it hard for people to pirate the DVDs. Also DVDs take a huge amount of space on your hard drive, so it is better to copy one for backup, then store it on your computer.
71966
The library often had VHS and DVDs in the educational section. Some video stores rent such things. Also, some of the educational stores at the mall.
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I guess because the theater has to have the release approved by the corporation the released the movie into its theater, and the corporation has to agree to letting it out on DVD, because the movie theater makes all of the money, more than on DVD. The theater gets nearly 12 dollars per person, plus $7.50 for kids, and if over a thousand people go to see that movie in one month, and there are twelve months in a year, you're looking at enough money to buy out MGM. But on DVD, most people already saw the movie, and might not want to see it again, so they don't but the DVD. But for those who did buy it, they're only wasting $19.99 or less. So, that is why it would take them so long. And also, some movies are so popular, that they are in release for a year, or maybe more, like the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies. They were pretty darn popular. Or Titanic. Very popular.
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Deep Discount DVD has some really good prices. I go there if I'm browsing. (First link)\n\nIf I have a particular DVD in mind, I go to Pricegrabber.com to get prices from a number of different stores. (Second link)
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the makers of DVDxCopy are out of business because of the MPAA. \n\nThere are forums and sites for support but the company is gone so official support is nowhere to be found.
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hard to say the diference there are two different systems, when they invented the DVD they discovered there are two ways on writing on it, so they lunch both just in case it will be an advantage ,plus it was a marketing thing some companies made a lot of money out of this.
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This requires too much equipment to do yourself unless you plan on doing A LOT of it.  The first part is the digital transfer (the hard part) and the second is the DVD authoring (which is pretty easy to do with software now).\n\nYou want to look for a company that specializes in digital transfer.  Some specialize in only certain media (e.g., 16mm), but some will do more so check that they work in your film size.  What you want to watch out for is an unethical place that will keep your originals (so you have to come to them whenever you want copies).  Absolutely check any agreement you sign to make sure there's nothing allowing them to keep anything but a copy.  I know someone who had her home movies stolen this way.\n\nI've never done it myself, so I don't have recommendations, but you can check the links below to get a baseline for prices and services before you call people.
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the DVD decder probably got delted some how
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They really should not have been called DVD's Digital Video Disks, because everyone incorrectly thinks it will only store Video. Just as a CD is not only for music.\nAs others have said the DVD holds 4.7GB and a CD holds 650MB - 700MB.\n(MB = Millions of Bytes. GB = Billions of Bytes)\nWhen it comes to your computer ANY data can be stored on eather disk. That data can be Movies, Music, Photos, E-mails, Letters you have typed, Programs you have downloaded, or as I said ANY data.\nSo in this case a DVD just holds more, MUCH more, data than a CD.