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Originally Posted by crich70
You make some good points Catlady, but some of them might be seen as pretty subjective. Any viewpoint on any topic is likely to have an element of bias involved I think because people have a bias for or against whatever is under discussion. I may think that Obama is the best President we've ever had for example while someone else might think he's among the worst we've had in office. Alec Guinness said it well in The Empire Strikes Back, "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view."
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When you're talking about VHS or DVD, the output is the same--moving pictures on a TV screen. I think it is entirely possible to say objectively that the pictures on the screen look better when the source is a commercial DVD rather than the comparable commercial VHS. It's also objectively true that tape degrades more quickly than shiny discs and that DVDs take up less storage space. These are not opinions.
The problem with trying to make an analogy with books is that words on a page and words on a screen are vastly different. You can look at a TV screen and perhaps not be immediately sure if the movie playing is from a DVD or a tape, but you can't possibly mistake a physical book for an e-book or vice versa. The physical book has some advantages, the e-book has some advantages. These are indeed subjective, which is why it's hard to imagine e-books ever supplanting physical books.