VHS to DVD

Every home is filled with a box of videotapes chronicling family vacations, birthdays, holiday events and even old TV shows. In the 80's and 90's VCRs were found in nearly every home across the United States. VHS tapes quickly became the gold standard for recording home movies. However VHS tapes delivered low video and sound quality. They were easily broken or melted in the heat and were extremely bulky and required considerable storage space.

Today, VHS tapes are an outdated technology and DVD is now the preferred video format. However, many people still continue to hold onto their old videotapes assuming that they will last indefinitely. Unfortunately that is not the case. Videotapes deteriorate over time even if they are stored away and not played. This degrading process is affected by many different factors, including humidity, temperature, and decaying magnetic particles. Studies show that a VHS tape can deteriorate to an unplayable condition in as little as three years.

A DVD is reported to have a shelf life of 100 years and will hold approximately 90 minutes of video without loss of quality. VHS to DVD conversion is the most common form of analog to digital video conversion and is currently the most practical and economical way to preserve your tape for future viewing. At Icehouse Pictures we use only professional grade equipment and real-time to DVD format capture to ensure you receive the highest quality obtainable from your original tape. So don't wait any longer and archive your videotape collection onto DVD before your memories become nothing more than a screen full of static.

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