Hi! Thanks for the question.
I found the resources for transferring from VCRs to other types of
media like DVDs. First, let us talk about the technical aspects and
how it can aid the teacher in using it as a teaching tool in the
classroom.
- ?Learning how to use DVD features of chapter and frame access
requires only a few minutes of instruction.?
- Due to the immense storage capacity of DVDs, more content can be
packed into it. Like if there is a historical movie, actual news
footages or interviews and additional documentaries can be included.
Such features can help in providing depth to learning.
- DVDs also have subtitle features that can aid in greater
understanding of the movie or helps those with hearing problems. It
can also aid in foreign language classes since DVDs usually provide
subtitle features in various languages.
- Video segment search
- high-quality video
- ?no deterioration of video playback over time?
- ?special features included on the disc?
- ?no problem with pause and shut down as in video tape?
- ?durable physical characteristic?
?DVD: Using Your Imagination in the Classroom? by William Lambeth
http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/@42NGFYOz5_ZN6/Pages/whydvd.html
This next article gives a good discussion on some of the points raised above.
?New Ways of Using Video Technologies in English Language Teaching? by
Naomi Migliacci
http://www.eslmag.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25
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Another article mentions the advantages of using purely digital media
for delivery of classroom video content via network streaming, closed
circuit or by the store and forward method. The store and forward
method means that you download the entire video first to another
computer and then watch it.
- ??access to more programs than are typically housed on site in the
school library and the potential for quicker access to a centralized
districts' holdings.?
- Such technology enables the delivery of the video content possible
throughout the school building or within the whole campus.
?Digital Video Delivery In Schools?
http://www.libraryvideo.com/articles/article14.asp
- ?Digital delivery enables video programs to be broadcast over a
school's local area network from a centrally located server to one or
more classrooms in the school.?
- ?United Streaming, one of these vendors, offers schools access to
20,000 downloadable educational video clips?most of them two to 10
minutes long?cataloged on the site by topic (such as geometry or
weather), state standards, and grade level.?
?The Once and Future Video? By Walter Minkel
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA266701.html
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Our next articles provide proofs about the decline of VHS sales as
more people adopt the use of DVDs and PVRs.
- ?Buena Vista Home Entertainment and HBO Video are now taking out
the VHS segments of their products.
- ?Universal Studios Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Home
Entertainment all have been raising wholesale prices on VHS,
effectively limiting retailers? orders of product in the older
format.?
- ?BestBuy.com removed its VHS offerings a few months ago. Its
bricks-and-mortar stores have not carried VHS for the last couple of
years.?
- ?Fred Meyer?s VHS sales have been dropping 50% to 60% annually over
the last few years. Hastings offered 70% more VHS product last year at
this time.?
?Studios unwinding VHS shipments Retailers OK with shift? By Susanne Ault
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA634637.html
- ?So far, many manufacturers have stopped making VHS tapes and most
of the movie industry, including 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros.
will phase them out by the end of 2006.?
- ?Most rental stores have either completely phased out VHS rentals or
just keep a small supply.?
- ?So far, 80% of Canadian homes have a DVD player. Back in 1999, VHS
sales tape revenues exceeded DVD sales revenues by about 4 to 1. Now
this is the other way around, by a factor of close to 12 to 1.?
?Studios aim to do away with VHS format by the end of 2006? by Seán Byrne
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php?ID=12574
- ?Nearly 60% of U.S. households had at least one console DVD player
by the end of 2004. If portables are included, 73% of U.S. households
had the capacity to view a DVD.?
- ?For the first time, DVD players began to replace rather than
supplement the venerable VCR as VCR penetration actually declined in
2004.?
- ?Video-on-demand was available in approximately 22 million U.S. households.?
- ?Digital video recorders were in fewer than 7 million U.S. households.?
?More People View Latest Movies on Home Video Than Any Other Medium?
http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/10381/150560.html
- ?Circuit City and Best Buy stopped selling them online earlier this
year, having removed the bulky cartridges from their store shelves in
2002 and 2003, respectively.?
- ?When "Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith" comes to home
video on Nov. 1, it will be available only on DVD, marking the first
time an installment in the Skywalker saga is not on VHS.?
?Parting Words For VHS Tapes, Soon to Be Gone With the Rewind? by Jen Chaney
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082600332.html
It would also good to take a look at the rise of the PVR as it
continues to replace the VCR.
- ?Smith Barney estimates that though only a little more than 6
million Americans now use DVR's, by 2010 nearly half of American
television households, or 58 million homes, will have them.?
Television DVDs or collections of a particular TV show?s full season
episodes are also another look at how DVD?s massive storage
capabilities makes it the medium of choice for such products instead
of VHS tapes.
- ?Television DVD's, an afterthought in the DVD market just three
years ago, were an estimated $2.3 billion-dollar business last year,
according to a recent Merrill Lynch research report. They now
represent nearly 15 percent of total DVD revenue, with profit margins
between 40 and 50 percent.?
?Steal This Show? by Lorne Manly and John Markoff
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/arts/television/30manl.html?ei=5090&en=e82b9db497df2928&ex=1264741200&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all&position=
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Even in 2002, MGM has already seen this trend as DVD was seen as fast
catching up with the rest in terms of sales. It took only 5 years for
DVDs to reach 30 million in sales.
?DVD Player Sales? (2002 data from MGM)
http://www.mgm.com/mgm/images/corporate/ppt_report/march_2003/P10_030303.jpg
And in 2002, DVD sales have already racked up more than their VHS counterparts.
?Margin Analysis: DVD vs. VHS?
http://www.mgm.com/mgm/images/corporate/ppt_report/P20_030402.jpg
Projected revenues for VHS are expected to fall as well.
2004 2005 2006 2007
VHS $4.6 $3.3 $2.4 $1.7 (in Billions of Dollars)
Source: http://www.corbell.com/publications/pdf/VHSstats.pdf
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