<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Forgive me, I'm not trying to start an argument – but that makes no sense. The DVD can't make your VHS tapes look better.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>They were 325 lines of resolution when you gave them to the DVD transfer place, and now they're compressed 325 lines of resolution. They can only be lower res, not higher. It just looks better because they probably had a high-quality VHS player and a time-based-corrector, etc.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">My view is based on my experience in this case.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I had some old VHS</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">camcoder tapes (family videos).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>They looked awful when played.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">brought them to your basic strip-mall conversion place and had them</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">transferred to DVD.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Very much improved quality.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>