VHS to DVD: Reasons to Convert

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Summary: Increase the life of your videos by converting them from VHS to DVD. Learn how to convert VHS tapes to DVD format from a professional videographer in this free electronics video.

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VHS to DVD: Reasons to Convert

In this clip, I'll be explaining the reasons you want to convert VHS to DVD. The most important thing to understand is that by converting VHS over to DVD you aren't gaining any quality. You're not gaining increased resolution or image quality by doing so; even though DVD's can support a much higher resolution and image quality than VHS tapes can. What you're doing is increasing the life span of your video footage. VHS is an analog format; meaning over the lifespan the tape gets worn down, and loses image quality every time you play it, rewind it, or just use the tape, or don't use the tape; even though it's just sitting there in storage it's losing image quality; even though you may not notice it, after fifty years you look at it, and it's not the same. A DVD won't lose quality, and its lifespan is much longer. Now, they say that the lifespan of a DVD is about a hundred years or so, but that can't be proven without waiting a hundred years, and technology hasn't been around for that long. But I guarantee you that it will last longer than a VHS tape. Another reason to convert is convenience and storage. Looking here you can see this is a VHS tape, which you're all familiar with, and this is a spindle of fifty DVD'S. Here's five tapes, right here; make that six, and it's already considerably bigger than the fifty DVD'S, so you can store it much easier. Another reason to convert is ease of access. With VHS you have to fast forward and rewind to find certain points in the footage, and if you convert to DVD correctly then you can access different scenes and jump directly to them, so it's easier to find the footage that you've shot.