VHS To DVD Converter
A VHS to DVD converter is not a simple one to one process, it requires hardware, software, and a suitable input device such as the original VCR or Betamax player. This means that a VHS to DVD converter is made up of at least three separate
parts, the original recording, a player, a digital signal changer, an input device, a receiver (a computer) and encoder (the software).
VHS (Video Home System) was developed in 1976 and made available to the general public in
1977. The VCR (videocassette recorder) quickly made its appearance on the market, and was partially blamed for a box office slump in the mid 1980s, and regulation began to in order to protect motion picture companies from copying and
distribution. This is one of the first parallels VHS and DVD (Digital Video Disc), with the motion picture companies moving quickly to produce a method to protect the videos by introducing video information in the original recording that
causes the brightness of the picture to constantly change if a second recording is attempted. This method that protected VHS was used with the later DVD format as well.
VHS began to decline in the 2000s with the introduction
of DVDs into the general market. Home video recording did not move as fast, and consumers still used digital tape and VHS tapes to do much of their home recording. Users began looking for a solution in order to transfer their VHS recordings
to DVD and digital formats.
How to convert VHS to DVD
MAGIX offers two of these solutions in one simple package in Rescue Your Videotapes! With Rescue Your Videotapes! Users can use the simple plug and play USB video and audio input device to capture their video recordings directly from a play that has at least analogue video out, or SVGA out. This input device fits in any open USB slot on any home computer and is supported by Windows in all its iterations. Any video input that uses these formats can be captured from the device. The simple video editing software included within Rescue Your Videotapes! enables quick and easy videotape recording and digital conversion into a format that allows for editing and corrective manipulation of the content.
Video correction is easy with Rescue Your Videotapes!
Videotapes can degrade over time, the physical condition of the tapes can lead to lost images, or even magnetic bleeding that can cause overlapping images and audio. With the included award winning software suite Movies on DVD you can save your home recordings, as well as hard to find recordings in your video library. Degradation of videotapes is often the reason users choose to use a VHS to DVD converter, of course there are other reasons. Retrieving video from obsolete players is, of course, the other. Using simple recording and retrieval is often enough for some, but to create an entire DVD with menus, graphics and photo optimization a video encoder and editor is required.
