Professional conversion of Video Tape to DVD (inc VHS to DVD) in the UK from only £20.00 !!
Dynamic DVD provides a professional VHS To DVD Transfer service.
VHS is an analogue videotape format made by a collection of Japanese electronic manufacturers in the early 1980's. In order for the consumer to afford this the standards for NTSC standard broadcast quality video was severely compromised. Luminance bandwidth was cut in half making the resolution detail a mere 220 lines. Broadcast quality recorders at that time could record only up to 450 lines of resolution (Over the air broadcast delivery only gets around 330 lines of resolution viewed at home). In order to fit the color information on the VHS tape, it was cut down to a meagre 20% of the original detail, so there's only approximately 40 lines of color information per horizontal line. Using modern Hi-Fi VCR, you can reproduce Stereo and with some models of Virtual Surround sound. It's close to what you get in the movie theatre?
This service includes
- Digital re-mastering of your VHS Tape
- Audio level balancing and enhancement
- Picture enhancement
- Audio converted to Dolby Stereo
The resulting video streams are authored and burned to DVD.
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc, is mostly used as Digital Video Disc now- it looks like a CD and uses similar data storage technology: image data is recorded as microscopic pits on a reflective surface, except the pits are far smaller and more densely packed than on CD's. Information is recorded as an MPEG-2 highly compressed component digital video signal. Compression rates are about 40 to 1 but the use of careful quality control during the mastering process can usually preserve a lot of the original picture quality in the MPEG-2 data. There's over 480 lines of luminance detail and over 220 lines of color information per line. This is considerably better than VHS or even LD. Although the size of a CD and DVD is the same, up to 4.5 GigaBytes can be stored on DVD (vs. 650 Megabytes on CD).
Don’t let your VHS Tape 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.
Other Tape Formats we transfer:
- Betamax to DVD
- VHS to DVD
- Hi-8 to DVD
- Digital 8 to DVD
- 8MM Camcorder Tape to DVD
- MiniDV to DVD
- Video 8 to DVD
- PAL VHS to DVD
- NTSC VHS to PAL DVD
The history of
VHS Format a Sony Perspective
Sony took a closer look at the VHS format and everyone was aghast. The technology and know-how that Sony had willingly disclosed when it proposed the unification of the U and Beta formats was incorporated in the VHS format. Although Sony had freely given the two companies access to its basic, patented technology, it was impossible for Sony to hide its shock and surprise.
Even though Sony's Beta format and JVC's VHS format were technologically similar, the cassette sizes were different. The two were not compatible. The fact that there was more than one format foretold a grueling struggle for leadership in the home-use VCR market and a deepening fight for market share. The last thing either side wanted was to inconvenience the user. But the VCR war had begun and everyone was running for cover.
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