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The benefits of transferring your videotapes to DVD are numerous and many are in trusting VHS to DVD Transfer to do this all for you. We are primarily based in London, UK but are able to handle worldwide orders, including Convert VHS tapes to DVD, easily.

Quality Convert VHS tapes to DVD (incl VHS to DVD) is our specialty. Combining the best in technical excellence in DVD authoring and outstanding service, we give you peace of mind when it comes to preserving your memories. VHS to DVD Transfer is the leader in the UK when it comes to saving your memories.

VHS to DVD Transfer provides a professional Convert VHS tapes to DVD service.

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Don't let your Convert VHS tapes to DVD memories fade away, preserve them with VHS to DVD Transfer!

Trust VHS to DVD Transfer 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 VHS to DVD Transfer.

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! The resulting video streams are authored and burned to Convert VHS tapes to DVD.

History of Convert VHS tapes to DVD

In 1958, Ampex took its color video tape recorder to Russia and demonstrated it before Vice President Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the USSR. A color video recording was brought back to the US and seen on American television. RCA also had taken color television equipment and cameras to the USSR.

Before the advent of the VCR proper, portable video recorders using 13 mm (half-inch) wide tape on 18 cm (7 inch aprox.) reels were marketed by both Sony and Philips. These did not have timers, and were mainly used by schools and colleges to record educational programmes, and by businesses as a means of distributing training films. Even earlier, in the 1950s, British enthusiasts could buy home kinescope kits which allowed the filming of TV shows on 16mm film.

It was not until the late 1970s, when European and Japanese companies developed more technically advanced machines with more accurate electronic timers and greater tape duration, that the VCR started to become a mass market consumer product. By 1980 there were three competing technical standards, with different, physically incompatible tape cassettes.

In the early 1970s the Dutch electronics company Philips developed a VCR system that used square cassettes with a recording time of one hour (the Video Compact Cassette system). The machines were equipped with crude timers that used rotary dials. The machines were expensive and the system never caught on.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, DVD gradually overtook the VCR as the most popular format for playback of prerecorded video.

One, the Video 2000 or V2000 system, also from Philips dropped out of the running quite quickly. It worked well, and gave a good quality recording and playback, as it used piezoelectric head positioning to dynamically adjust the tape tracking. It was also notable in that its cassettes had two sides, like a record or audio cassette. However, V2000 hit the Convert VHS tapes to DVD market after the other two rivals, and managed only limited sales in Europe before vanishing.

The two major standards were Sony's Betamax (also known as Betacord or just Beta), and JVC's VHS. Betamax was generally reckoned to make and play slightly better quality recordings and used smaller media, but VHS rapidly overtook it in sales.

As more VHS recorders came into use, and more VHS films became available, network effects eventually squeezed Betamax out of the consumer market; though a related system called "Convert VHS tapes to DVD" still remains in use for high quality professional recording equipment. For home video recording, both Personal Video Recorders (such as Tivo and ReplayTV) and DVD recorders are becoming popular, although neither has yet supplanted the VCR. In fact, Tivo cooperates well with VCRs which can be used to archive PVR recordings.

Various reasons are given for the failure of the Beta consumer format:

Some accounts claim that VHS won because initially allowed for twice the recording time Others attribute the success of VHS to the greater availability of pornography on that medium, reflecting the long standing tradition of pornography being the driving force for the takeup of new media (the Internet being another obvious example).

JVC and Sony used different marketing models for their technology: JVC licensed their VHS technology to consumer electronics companies like Zenith and RCA, which then produced low-cost VCRs, enriching JVC through royalties paid under its license. Sony did not license the Beta format to other manufacturers; Sony was the only company to produce Beta machines, and Sony was unable to compete on price with the somewhat inferior-quality VHS standard.

However, the introduction of recordable DVDs with sufficient recording capacity on to the regular market with their advantage of random access could spell the doom of the VCR once the price comes down significantly.

With regards to your video encoding needs, you can consult us to custom-built software transcoders/encoders and Convert VHS tapes to DVD.

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