AFT-L FAQ Maintainer
2004-04-11 18:45:18 UTC
I'm posting this in response to a certain person posting that he has High Quality Copies, not from Retail Tapes, but from copies on
VHS tapes.
He brags that you will NOT find a better quality copy anywhere, and he can't see charging $25 to $35.00 for a copy....
Let's explain a few things here.
The Canadian titles for $35.00 each, are DVD's. The $25.00 copies I offered were DVD's, now I will TRADE only for a Retail
VHS/Beta/Laserdisc that I don't have, or I will sell a DVD for $50.00...
Let's discuss quality of HIS versus ours:
His is off a COPY from a VHS Tape. Was that a Retail Tape? Was that a Beta Tape? Was that a Laserdisc? Was it off a Copy of a
Copy?
VHS has 240 lines of resolution when recorded in SP mode. Every time a copy is made off the original, there is degradation of the
picture, UNLESS professional duplicating equipment is used, with image enhancers, etc..
Beta has 250 lines of resolution and transfer to VHS results in very little degradation.
I'm assuming he used RF, or Audio/Video out and in to make his copies. There is degradation. Unless you use Super VHS or Digital
VHS, Super Beta or Digital Beta with S-Video outputs, there is a LOSS in the transfer of the video.
How old are his Videos? Traci Lords Adult Films were made in 1984, 1985, and 1986. That's over 18 years ago!! The LIFE of VHS is
only 10-15 years, then the picture really starts to degrade.
What the Canadian Distributor offers are DVD's, there is a BIG Difference between DVD and VHS. What I offer are Professionally
transferred VHS/Beta/Laserdisc to DVD copies, off the Original Retail Tape, which gives the Highest Possible Picture Quality.
DVD versus VHS:
DVD has 540 lines of resolution compared to 240 lines of resolution on VHS.
DVD has True Dolby Digital Stereo Sound compared to Low Quality Hi-Fi sound on VHS. Hi-Fi tracks on Video Tape are recorded between
the Video Tracks, according to SONY, VHS can NOT have Hi=Fi sound, only Beta can. The Hi-Fi tracks on Hi-Fi decks mean smaller
video tracks, smaller tracks mean smaller storage space.
DVD will last over 200 years, VHS will last 10-15 years.
DVD has no picture loss when making a Digital DVD copy to a Digital DVD Copy. VHS has picture quality and audio quality loss every
time it is played, and the copy has less quality than the original.
DVD has chapters so you can jump immediately from scene to scene. VHS has fast scan forward and reverse, so you wear the tape even
more watching the picture while you do this, as the tape is always in contact with the moving heads.
DVD has no Physical Contact so there is no wear on the DVD, the picture will look the same the first time you play it and the
millionth time you play it. VHS tape has constant physical contact with HIGH Speed rotating Magnetic Heads, which provide friction
on the tape and cause microscopic particles to come off the tape with each play, and they have an average life of 2000 passes, so
the picture will look GREAT the first time you play the tape, but will look worse with each additional play and will only last maybe
200 plays.
You get what you pay for. $15.00 will get you a Video Tape of what is said to be High Quality, the BEST there is, made off of a
COPY of a COPY of an original(?) Video or possibly another COPY. That picture quality has degraded and you are getting an INFERIOR
copy of that COPY, it may last 10-15 years.
$35.00 from the Canadian Distributor will get you a DVD of what the Distributor claims is off a High Quality Retail Tape, and I have
not purchased any of his DVD's so I don't know what he offers in the way of chapter selection, etc., but from what I understand he
uses a Consumer Grade Stand Alone DVD Recorder.
What you get from me, is a Professional DVD, captured using Professional Video and Audio Capture Equipment, just like the major
studios, with full motion menus and full motion chapter thumbnails, recorded off the ORIGINAL RETAIL VHS/BETA/Laserdisc and
digitally encoded and recorded in MPEG-2 Variable Format. In other words, just like a video tape. If you record a 75 minute movie
on a T-120 tape, you notice you have a lot of blank tape at the end of the movie. This is a Fixed Speed Tape. That same amount of
tape will hold 120 minutes of the same quality and speed of video.
A Single Sided Single Layer DVD will hold up to 124 minutes of video, with lower quality than the original material, because only 60
Minutes of MPEG-2 can fit on a DVD. Putting 124 minutes on a DVD will result in about 50% quality of the original video.
If you use a Consumer Grade Home DVD Recorder you have several recording speeds, XP which will record 60 minutes on a DVD, SP which
will record 2 hours on a DVD, LP which will record 4 hours on a DVD, EP which will record 6 hours on a DVD, and NOW you have ELP
which will record 8 hours on a DVD.
With our Variable Speed recording, comparing a DVD to a Video tape, a 60 minute movie will fit on a DVD, just like a T-60. A 75
minute movie will fit on a DVD just like it would on a T-75, same with a 90 minute movie, would be the same as a T-90, etc.. Notice
you will have space left over. If you look at a DVD recorded in 2 hour mode for a 75 minute Traci Lords Video, you will notice that
some of the DVD surface has not been recorded on.
You will NEVER notice that on any of our DVD's unless the DVD has less than 60 minutes recorded on it, such as the 30 Minute Gourmet
Quickies.
The MPEG-2 file is gradually reduced in quality to fit on the entire DVD, giving you the Highest Quality Picture available. As the
MPEG-2 is reduced to fit into the space of a 60 minute MPEG-2 file the quality is as follows: 60 minutes and shorter will be 100%
quality. Most of Traci's movies are 75 or 90 minutes, with only 4 being 115 and 117 minutes in length, the reduction in quality on
a 117 minute video is 46%. The 72 minute is about a 23% reduction in quality and 88 minutes is about 36% reduction in quality.
Most others will use the 2 hour fixed encoding method for her videos, and will reduce the quality, because they will not fill the
entire DVD recordable surface.
For anyone who has any of her Original Retail VHS/Beta or Laserdiscs here is a description of what we offer for $25.00, and we will
gladly convert the $15.00 low quality VHS tapes you buy from this other guy to durable DVD for the same $25.00 fee, just send it to
us before you play it, because if you play his video, the picture will immediately degrade. Remember, we offered to supply your DVD
copy with one made from our Retail Tapes and Laserdiscs which are of Superior Quality to anything else out there, so your DVD will
only be as good as the source video.
Videotape loses its quality over time and also stretches and wears with use. After 10-15 years
of storage the quality of video decreases dramatically. DVD is designed to last for generations
without any loss of video and audio quality.
A DVD from ORTMAN Enterprises is the only way to view your movies. We provide the highest
quality digital transfer of your video, making it much more fun to watch! And your movies will
last a lifetime without degradation of the images like video tape.
With our Video Transfer and unlike all videotape, you don't just have fast forward and rewind
to find the parts of your movie that you want to see. You now have scene selection just like
the movies you rent and can jump directly to the part you want to see!
Beware: Not All DVD Conversion is the Same
Don't be fooled by ridiculously cheap advertised prices on DVD transfer services, because there
is a big quality difference depending on the equipment and the process used for example, is the
DVD manually created or done in a purely automated way by a machine, which causes serious
flaws.
Our DVD's are encoded (transferred) using high-quality professional hardware encoding just like
that used by the movie studios. Other companies use home-quality DVD recorders with fixed
encoding quality.
There's an especially huge quality difference in the creation of DVD's. Most companies use an
automated recording system that randomly generates Chapter Selections every few minutes or,
even worse, every time the camera was started and then stopped on the tape being transferred.
That means you may jump into the middle of an event on your tape that makes no sense or, with
the start-and-stop method, you may have 50 Chapter Selections in the first 10-15 minutes of
your DVD!
DVD's from ORTMAN Enterprises include full-motion menus, and moving video from your movie, not
just random still images chosen by a computer!
VHS tapes.
He brags that you will NOT find a better quality copy anywhere, and he can't see charging $25 to $35.00 for a copy....
Let's explain a few things here.
The Canadian titles for $35.00 each, are DVD's. The $25.00 copies I offered were DVD's, now I will TRADE only for a Retail
VHS/Beta/Laserdisc that I don't have, or I will sell a DVD for $50.00...
Let's discuss quality of HIS versus ours:
His is off a COPY from a VHS Tape. Was that a Retail Tape? Was that a Beta Tape? Was that a Laserdisc? Was it off a Copy of a
Copy?
VHS has 240 lines of resolution when recorded in SP mode. Every time a copy is made off the original, there is degradation of the
picture, UNLESS professional duplicating equipment is used, with image enhancers, etc..
Beta has 250 lines of resolution and transfer to VHS results in very little degradation.
I'm assuming he used RF, or Audio/Video out and in to make his copies. There is degradation. Unless you use Super VHS or Digital
VHS, Super Beta or Digital Beta with S-Video outputs, there is a LOSS in the transfer of the video.
How old are his Videos? Traci Lords Adult Films were made in 1984, 1985, and 1986. That's over 18 years ago!! The LIFE of VHS is
only 10-15 years, then the picture really starts to degrade.
What the Canadian Distributor offers are DVD's, there is a BIG Difference between DVD and VHS. What I offer are Professionally
transferred VHS/Beta/Laserdisc to DVD copies, off the Original Retail Tape, which gives the Highest Possible Picture Quality.
DVD versus VHS:
DVD has 540 lines of resolution compared to 240 lines of resolution on VHS.
DVD has True Dolby Digital Stereo Sound compared to Low Quality Hi-Fi sound on VHS. Hi-Fi tracks on Video Tape are recorded between
the Video Tracks, according to SONY, VHS can NOT have Hi=Fi sound, only Beta can. The Hi-Fi tracks on Hi-Fi decks mean smaller
video tracks, smaller tracks mean smaller storage space.
DVD will last over 200 years, VHS will last 10-15 years.
DVD has no picture loss when making a Digital DVD copy to a Digital DVD Copy. VHS has picture quality and audio quality loss every
time it is played, and the copy has less quality than the original.
DVD has chapters so you can jump immediately from scene to scene. VHS has fast scan forward and reverse, so you wear the tape even
more watching the picture while you do this, as the tape is always in contact with the moving heads.
DVD has no Physical Contact so there is no wear on the DVD, the picture will look the same the first time you play it and the
millionth time you play it. VHS tape has constant physical contact with HIGH Speed rotating Magnetic Heads, which provide friction
on the tape and cause microscopic particles to come off the tape with each play, and they have an average life of 2000 passes, so
the picture will look GREAT the first time you play the tape, but will look worse with each additional play and will only last maybe
200 plays.
You get what you pay for. $15.00 will get you a Video Tape of what is said to be High Quality, the BEST there is, made off of a
COPY of a COPY of an original(?) Video or possibly another COPY. That picture quality has degraded and you are getting an INFERIOR
copy of that COPY, it may last 10-15 years.
$35.00 from the Canadian Distributor will get you a DVD of what the Distributor claims is off a High Quality Retail Tape, and I have
not purchased any of his DVD's so I don't know what he offers in the way of chapter selection, etc., but from what I understand he
uses a Consumer Grade Stand Alone DVD Recorder.
What you get from me, is a Professional DVD, captured using Professional Video and Audio Capture Equipment, just like the major
studios, with full motion menus and full motion chapter thumbnails, recorded off the ORIGINAL RETAIL VHS/BETA/Laserdisc and
digitally encoded and recorded in MPEG-2 Variable Format. In other words, just like a video tape. If you record a 75 minute movie
on a T-120 tape, you notice you have a lot of blank tape at the end of the movie. This is a Fixed Speed Tape. That same amount of
tape will hold 120 minutes of the same quality and speed of video.
A Single Sided Single Layer DVD will hold up to 124 minutes of video, with lower quality than the original material, because only 60
Minutes of MPEG-2 can fit on a DVD. Putting 124 minutes on a DVD will result in about 50% quality of the original video.
If you use a Consumer Grade Home DVD Recorder you have several recording speeds, XP which will record 60 minutes on a DVD, SP which
will record 2 hours on a DVD, LP which will record 4 hours on a DVD, EP which will record 6 hours on a DVD, and NOW you have ELP
which will record 8 hours on a DVD.
With our Variable Speed recording, comparing a DVD to a Video tape, a 60 minute movie will fit on a DVD, just like a T-60. A 75
minute movie will fit on a DVD just like it would on a T-75, same with a 90 minute movie, would be the same as a T-90, etc.. Notice
you will have space left over. If you look at a DVD recorded in 2 hour mode for a 75 minute Traci Lords Video, you will notice that
some of the DVD surface has not been recorded on.
You will NEVER notice that on any of our DVD's unless the DVD has less than 60 minutes recorded on it, such as the 30 Minute Gourmet
Quickies.
The MPEG-2 file is gradually reduced in quality to fit on the entire DVD, giving you the Highest Quality Picture available. As the
MPEG-2 is reduced to fit into the space of a 60 minute MPEG-2 file the quality is as follows: 60 minutes and shorter will be 100%
quality. Most of Traci's movies are 75 or 90 minutes, with only 4 being 115 and 117 minutes in length, the reduction in quality on
a 117 minute video is 46%. The 72 minute is about a 23% reduction in quality and 88 minutes is about 36% reduction in quality.
Most others will use the 2 hour fixed encoding method for her videos, and will reduce the quality, because they will not fill the
entire DVD recordable surface.
For anyone who has any of her Original Retail VHS/Beta or Laserdiscs here is a description of what we offer for $25.00, and we will
gladly convert the $15.00 low quality VHS tapes you buy from this other guy to durable DVD for the same $25.00 fee, just send it to
us before you play it, because if you play his video, the picture will immediately degrade. Remember, we offered to supply your DVD
copy with one made from our Retail Tapes and Laserdiscs which are of Superior Quality to anything else out there, so your DVD will
only be as good as the source video.
Videotape loses its quality over time and also stretches and wears with use. After 10-15 years
of storage the quality of video decreases dramatically. DVD is designed to last for generations
without any loss of video and audio quality.
A DVD from ORTMAN Enterprises is the only way to view your movies. We provide the highest
quality digital transfer of your video, making it much more fun to watch! And your movies will
last a lifetime without degradation of the images like video tape.
With our Video Transfer and unlike all videotape, you don't just have fast forward and rewind
to find the parts of your movie that you want to see. You now have scene selection just like
the movies you rent and can jump directly to the part you want to see!
Beware: Not All DVD Conversion is the Same
Don't be fooled by ridiculously cheap advertised prices on DVD transfer services, because there
is a big quality difference depending on the equipment and the process used for example, is the
DVD manually created or done in a purely automated way by a machine, which causes serious
flaws.
Our DVD's are encoded (transferred) using high-quality professional hardware encoding just like
that used by the movie studios. Other companies use home-quality DVD recorders with fixed
encoding quality.
There's an especially huge quality difference in the creation of DVD's. Most companies use an
automated recording system that randomly generates Chapter Selections every few minutes or,
even worse, every time the camera was started and then stopped on the tape being transferred.
That means you may jump into the middle of an event on your tape that makes no sense or, with
the start-and-stop method, you may have 50 Chapter Selections in the first 10-15 minutes of
your DVD!
DVD's from ORTMAN Enterprises include full-motion menus, and moving video from your movie, not
just random still images chosen by a computer!