primarily I think this has to do with the simple facts about magnetic tape (VHS). It's a shitty format. It degrades over time, and each copy-of-a-copy you make yields lower and lower image and sound quality. So when you make a DVD from the original analog 135mm (or whatever format it's in), you often get a much better quality than your average VCR tape.
Right, VHS is essentially analagous to a cassette tape (and I'm sure we can all agree that both suck). There really is no video equivalent of a vinyl record, where the information isn't encoded via magnetic or digital technology. A grooved video disc, now that would be cool! P.S. Anyone who thinks Blue Room sounds dated is nuts IMO, if it came out today I'd think it was awesome no doubt about it. Not that it matters, great music is great music regardless of when it was produced. Its timeless quality is exactly what makes it great. Jason _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail