Remember me, I am a VHS tape. I once fought it out with another named BETAMAX, for reign over the video world. I won.
Now look at me. Tired, old, mechanical parts…. I am outdated and alone.
Sure, you say, some people may still even have a whole library of me, but one day I will turn on them, send my black tentacles into their playheads and gears , and render myself useless. All the time sending your VHS player to the shop!
Oh, it could happen at any moment.
What can I do to regain my power, to move up the food chain?
Nothing. I am a dead format. I can be duplicated, shipped, copied and delivered at 4 to 6 times slower than the speed of a DVD duplication project.
I also cannot be played in a laptop, on an airplane, on the way to a big sales presentation. I can’t have custom artwork printed directly on me. I can be played in your grandmothers house, but only for the time being, because even grandma has a DVD player now.
Where I have defeated BETAMAX, DVD duplication has beaten me.
Here are some facts that will send me to my grave and make your project take on a new life:
DVD duplication has a shelf life of 100 years. (if you outlive one, you win a prize!)
DVD duplications have no moving parts. (see photo above, zoinks!)
DVD duplications can be duplicated millions of times with no generation loss (cause we are living in a digital world, and you are a digital girl)
DVD duplications can provided more information, custom interfaces and menus, and provided functions VHS could never dream of (its so very true!)
Death to VHS, and all hail the DVD!
