Hi-8 to DVD Conversion London, UK from just £20.00

Dynamic DVD provides a professional Hi-8 to DVD transfer or conversion service.

Dynamic DVD is the authority in the UK when it comes to Video Tape to DVD conversion or Transfer. We use state-of-the-art equipment to make sure the job is done to the highest technical specification resulting in the best quality DVD that can be created from the original tape source. Dynamic DVD is based in London, UK.

This service includes
1. Digital re-mastering of your Hi-8 Tape
2. Audio level balancing and enhancement
3. Picture enhancement
4. Audio converted to Dolby Stereo

The resulting video streams are authored and burned to DVD . We can get as much as four hours on a single DVD with most customers remarking that the resulting video is clearer, sharper and sounds better!

Don’t let your Hi-8 memories fade away, preserve them with Dynamic DVD!

Trust Dynamic DVD to preserve your memories and make sure you know what you are buying! There are many tape to dvd conversion companies who simply plug your precious memories into low quality DVD recorders and send you the result. This is the inferior way to preserve your memories as no digital corrections can be made to the video or the audio. For more information see the benefits of using Dynamic DVD.

The Video Formats 1: Video8 and Hi8

At 8mm, the tape was smaller, and revolutionised home video.

Hi8 (analogue)
Like S-VHS, Hi8 uses S-Video processing to produce better quality images in playback. Hi8 recordings are made using Metal Evaporated tape coatings which produce much higher resolution recordings. As an analogue recording medium, Hi8 produces a significantly higher quality than, say, VHS and is on a par with S-VHS. However, the main advantage of the format is its small size. The 90 minutes maximum recording time can be achieved with far less tape than, say, VHS. The smaller tape size has enabled the manufacturers to produce smaller-sized camcorders. It is from this than the Sony Handycam product range emerged (and others since). Of the non-digital formats (eg: mini-DV, Digital8, DVC-Pro, DV-Cam), Hi8 is considered to be the better analogue format.

With the introduction of, and widespread take-up, of the newer digital formats (mini-DV first appeared in 1995 in the form of the infamous Sony DCR-VX1000E camcorder) it is inevitable that Video8 and Hi8 formats will soon find their way into the history books. Anticipating this - and, no doubt, with a view to prolonging its 8mm tape production facilities for a few more years - Sony cleverly adapted the format to enable the recording of DV-like digital signals to existing analogue 8mm tapes. The result of this has been Digital8. Many Digital8 camcorders enable users to not only record and play back digitally but to playback Video8 and Hi8 analogue recordings, too. This is particularly useful for importing older analogue tape recordings into a computer-based video editing set-up.

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