Advantages and disadvantages of VCR?

Question

need to know!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Advantages of a Using a VCR:
 Cheap: The cost for a cassette is £1 which normally has 180 minutes (3 hours); whilst DVDs cost are much higher
 Money: Before the arrival of the DVD, all movies were on cassettes to convert these to DVDs will cost money, however with a VCR there is no need to

Disadvantages of a Using a VCR:
 Technology: The highest quality of watching a film is on DVD players rather then a VCR

Answer 2

The advantages and disadvantages depend on how you use it. The cost of a DVD is no disadvantage to me - I never buy pre-recorded stuff.
Also, a VCR is at a disadvantage if you are too dumb to be able to programme a recording - seems to be most people.
I have switched from a VCR to a PVR with built-in Freeview. The PVR has the advantage of not having to sort through a pile of cassettes to find the recording you want or a recording that you are prepared to erase. But someone who is very organised and has built up a detailed index of his/her cassettes (certainly not my case) would not find this a problem.
A disadvantage of the PVR compared to cassette is that if you stop watching part-way through a recording, the only way to go back to where you were when you want to resume viewing is to use the fast-search mode. With a cassette, you just start the cassette where you left off.
I also have a DVD player, but only ever use it to play the DVDs I get given (christmas etc).
Another disadvantage of my PVR is that if you just press record when you are going out, it will carry on recording until the hard disc is full. It is very easy to programme (even my wife can programme it, but she couldn't programme the VCR) though. The VCR you can set it to record for half an hour, an hour, two hours, etc and then go out.
The PVR has the "pause live TV" feature, something the VCR can't do. I thought this was great to begin with, but now I realise that in fact I hardly ever use this feature.
My PVR can record any of the Freeview channels automatically. You can even watch one and record another if they are on the same multiplex. But it can't record from an external source (on my one, I think you can from some more recent ones), such as my satellite or IPTV boxes.
If you go the PVR way, there are plenty of good ones around (mine is a Neotion). But I'd keep away from the Sky+ box because it needs an expensive monthly subscription to carry on working.

All in all, I am keeping both for maximum flexibility. One in the bedroom and the other in the sitting room.

Answer 3

When you say "disadvantages" of a VCR, it helps to have something to contrast it with:

A digital recorder (DVR or PVR) is usually superior to VCR:

- The DVR's usually let you pause/rewind live TV

- The DVR's usually come with a program guide so you can search for upcoming shows, record only "New" or "All" episodes, select shows by name and the program-guide takes care of the rest.

- You never have to set the clock on a DVR.

- With a VCR - the tapes degrade over time and with each playback. A DVR can replay a show thousands of times without quality loss.

- When you record to a VCR - you loose some quality because of the analog recording and a VCR tape cannot hold all the lines of video information. A DVR that comes with a CATV or SAT service records the bits (ones and zeros) exactly as originally broadcast. There is zero quality loss.

- A VCR cannot record HDTV. DVR's that can record High Def are now common.

Answer 4

advantage- cheep disadvantage- old generation, most movies come out on dvd and the video tapes take up alot of space and plus a dvd has a menu and language select and subtitles , better buy a dvd

Answer 5

Advanage - Cheap

Disadvantge - No body uses them anymore