Videotapes are only effective for short term storage of video. The images begin to degrade and fade soon after they are recorded. Videotapes degrade every time they are played. Even storing them properly and making backup copies will not preserve the picture quality.

Have you ever lost a VHS tape when the video player thorn it apart? Don't take that chance again. If it was valuable enough to put on video, it is valuable enough to save on DVD.

The best way to ensure your VHS or camcorder tapes are preserved is to digitize them and have them converted to a long lasting digital medium. Time or extensive playing will not affect the quality of your new DVD disks. By digitizing your video tapes they will always look exactly the same as they do now.

Video Transfer to DVD: up to 90 min tape  - $25.00AU

If multiple tapes are provided with shorter clips to make up the 90 minutes, add $3 per tape.

All videotape to DVD video transfers include:
Video transferred from your tape onto a high quality DVD-R
A scene index menu with chapter points.  Chapter points are manually inserted into the video when there is a change of scene.  The viewer can jump directly to points in the video using their remote control.

MiniDV is recognised as the best possible long term backup format and it has many advantages as a digital master for editing and future technologies.

If you do not have MiniDV player, storing full resolution avi/mov files on DVD media is  equally viable alternative for preserving Master Digital backups of your most valued videos.

High definition, dual layer and Blue Ray are now coming of age and who knows what technology we will be watching on our TV's in 5 years time. Your Master Digital backups can be converted to any of the new emerging technologies of the future including High Definition, Wide Screen and Blue Ray. Master Digital backups will store your footage at full quality native DV.

At $20.00 per hour of backup, it's definitely a good value.