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VHS to DVD & HD Transfers Choosing digital storage is the best way today to archive your important memories for future generations so your loved ones can remember your family history. This can be made possible by storing videos in high definition files which can be achieved at our shop. Many people take their videotapes to unreliable video transfer stores lacking standards for quality control such as excess video noise by the use of improper connections & cables, and the use of poorly maintained equipment. Video heads need to be cleaned and checked for alignment frequently to ensure proper playback. It is easy to get started with us, simply drop your tapes off at our downtown location or when you use our Up Conversion Service, we include free shipping nation wide. We use a world renowned standards converter and video scopes for monitoring in order to get the job done right! Fun Fact! The group that created the converter started off …
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There are many types of video formats that has come out in the past 50 years. I will explain the most popular formats during the past 50 years as we get many people bringing in tapes they can’t identify. The most common one is the VHS tape. It came out around 1980s and is slowly phasing out today. Despite of this, we still see VHS tapes being sold at stores. The magnetic tape is half inch in width. Image from http://en.wikipedia.org Betamax looks similar to BetaSP, but they are not. Betamax is an older type of tape, it came out during the same period as VHS tapes. There was a format war during this time as people were deciding on which format to choose from. Ultimately, VHS won out despite that Betamax had better picture quality. Image from http://www.atticlightstudios.com/ Hi8, regular 8 & digital 8 all look the same. …
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Why Transferring Home Movies to HD is Not a Good Idea
July 3, 2014 in Recent News, Video Conversion | Comments Off on Why Transferring Home Movies to HD is Not a Good Idea
Transferring from standard definition to high definition is not a good idea because your increasing the size of a video by blowing it up. This method is also known as up converting. A standard VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Regular 8 video tape has a standard definition (SD) frame size of 720X480. High definition (HD) frame sizes are typically 1920X1080. There are some other HD sizes as well, for example: 1280X720 or the older format 1440X720 (which is rare now a-days). 1920X1080 can also be written as 1080p and 1280X720 can be written as 720p. These numbers represent how many pixels are placed horizontally and vertically on a screen. As you can see from the numbers mentioned, SD is smaller than HD. So in order to make your footage HD, you have to increase the number of pixels on the SD format which is not available. However, if one were to do …
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