Your living room or hall closet are both much better choices than the basement. Our best advice beyond digitizing is to make sure all your analog tapes are safely stored away from the elements. Our technicians examine all tapes before we transfer VHS to digital formats, often re-spooling the tape in new plastic cases. When you digitize VHS content, you can store it forever on your mobile devices. Tape slipping can make your whole tape start to skip in the VHS player and it’s a common problem with tapes stored over long periods of time. Have you ever heard of tape slipping? What about magnetic tape deterioration? Tape warping? Tape crease? These are all things that can destroy your priceless family memories if they’re not caught and handled by experts. At EverPresent we’ve seen it all and we take extra care to handle your VHS tapes with expertise. It’s more important than ever to convert VHS to DVD or USB because there are a lot of things that can go wrong with these old analog formats. In fact, the magnetic tape inside the VHS case is deteriorating quite quickly. 40 years later, your smartphone is more powerful than that 1976 Super Computer, but your VHS tapes are not improving as they sit in a box in your basement. To put that into perspective, that was the same time the first Super Computer was launched at a cost of $8.8 million The Muppet Show, Family Feud and Laverne & Shirley first premiered and the U.S. After everything in this file format and any other is transferred to a flash drive, digital delivery through Legacybox Cloud™ or DVD, we return your original tapes.In 2017, the VHS tape turned 40 years old. We start by sending you a crushproof Legacybox with pre-paid UPS round trip shipping and tracking. Our VHS-C to Digital transfer service prides itself on handling your favorite memories easily and efficiently, and we communicate with you throughout the entire process. Our VHS-C to USB drive, digital delivery through Legacybox Cloud™ or DVD conversion service promises that the footage you captured from all those family outings and school performances will be replicated exactly as is onto the long-lasting, easily viewable and shareable format of compact DVDs and digital files.
It is only a matter of time before they are unsalvageable. The colors are fading, the edges of the pictures are deteriorating. Magnetic tape begins deteriorating 15 years after it was made. Your bigger concern should be that the tape inside the VHS-C tapes is breaking down. Never mind that the equipment to play these tapes is harder to find than mammoth tusks. Well, hold on, I can think of one thing-the video conversion machines in our Legacybox studios. Nothing is going to play those old VHS-C tapes.
Save yourself the time and don’t even try and go looking for a VHS-C to VHS adaptor nowadays. What you gained in mobility on the recording end, you lost in needing an adaptor to play on a VCR or copy to VHS. At one inch thick, four inches wide, and two inches tall (about the size of a rubber duckie), VHS-C tapes seemed like a sleek compact car compared to the stodgy family station wagon that was VHS. The new formats generally came with adapters that worked with VCRs so that they could be viewed in the family living room, or transferred to VHS.Įnter the VHS-C videocassette tape. While VHS tapes and VCRs remained the primary format for viewing the final product, the race was on to create smaller tape formats and smaller more affordable and easy-to-use video cameras. They were essentially VCRs with zoom lenses and battery packs. And clunky, and captured video onto the unwieldy video format of VHS.
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