It is a sad fact that magnetic tapes do not last – while you are reading this, your video tapes are slowly deteriorating….
VHS Tapes Won’t Last Forever!
Its a sad fact of life that those VHS Tapes with our treasured memories on them use fragile magnetic tape that can get caught inside your VCR and destroyed. Videotapes start degrading after a few years. Before you realize it, you want to watch those old videos, take a trip down memory lane, but to your dismay the quality has deteriorated! Suddenly your wedding video or home video has some intermittent snow, color distortion or even missing parts on the tape. Pretty soon you will have lost the memories on that tape for good. Imagine the horror of losing precious family moments to such an accident.
And perhaps worst of all, something else that ‘s shocking, YOUR TAPES CAN FALL APART JUST SITTING IN A BOX. Read on:
Tapes Degrade Whether You View Them Or Not
VHS Tapes use Magnetic Tape that breaks down over time. Imagine a piece of adhesive tape with tiny pebbles stuck to it. Those tiny pebbles are little pieces of metal that your VCR reads to display video and make sound. After time, EVEN IF YOU DON”T USE THEM, VHS Tapes lose their “stickiness” and the pebbles shift, move, or fall off.
How Long Does It Take for Tapes to Go Bad?
Experts don’t agree on exactly how long it takes for a VHS Tape to degrade completely. But most, if not all, agree on one thing, Your Tapes are Degrading RIGHT NOW, and its only going to get worse. Depending on the quality of tape you use and how you store them, and how many times you watch them, yours could degrade sooner than that! Why take the risk? Your memories are important to you, your family, to your children. Let NuMedia Specialist help you protect those memories by transferring them to DVD.
NuMedia Specialist will transfer your video to DVD. Make certain your video lasts for generations to come – transfer your VHS to DVD today!
DVDs offer many advantages such as:
- No magnetic coating that can wear away with each use
- You can easily navigate the DVD with Scene Selection Menus
- Quick forward/backward scanning and searching
- Since a DVD is digital, any copies are exactly the same as the original with no loss of quality!
- Use your DVD on your computer to capture still scenes for photo printing.
- Zoom-in features (if supported by your DVD player)
- If handled properly (like a CD), a DVD can last over 100 years!
- DVDs take up less space than VHS tapes
- For the reasons above and many more, DVDs are becoming the mainstream, and VHS is becoming obsolete.
