VHStoDVD
Somewhere in your house is a drawer full of videotapes - aging home
movies shot with a big, bulky camcorder that may not even work anymore.
It is a sad fact, but magnetic tapes do not last. They start to degrade after only a couple of years, and after a few more years, you will begin to see a noticeable difference in the video quality.
Converting home videos to DVD is a great way to preserve, share and enhance those old tapes.
Soon you will not even be able to play your video at all! So what can you do to preserve your precious memories?
- DVDs offer many advantages such as:
- No rewinding!
- There is no magnetic coating that can wear away with each use,
which is the case with tapes
- Menus and chapter points (bookmarks) allow you to skip to
certain scenes instantly
- Quick forward/backward scanning and searching
- DVDs take up less space than VHS tapes
- Since a DVD is digital, any copies are exactly the same as the
original with no loss of quality!
- A DVD can be be put into a computer so that you can capture
still scenes for printing photos.
- Zoom-in features (if your DVD player supports it)
- If handled properly (like a CD), a DVD can last over 100 years!
For the reasons above and many more, DVDs are becoming the
mainstream, and VHS is becoming obsolete.
Transferring old film and VHS video to DVD is a time-consuming process -
but it's well worth the effort.