Why convert to DVD?
DVDs offer many advantages over tapes. No rewinding! There is no magnetic coating that can wear away with each use, which is the case with tapes. Menus and chapter points allow you to skip to certain scenes instantly. 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! (The DVD’s we create for you are not copy protected so you could make duplicate copies of the DVD’s.) A DVD can be be put into a computer’s DVD drive so that you can capture single frames from your videos to be used as a photo. Q: How long do videos last on tape? How long on DVD? Unfortunately, video tapes have a limited lifespan. They won’t last forever. Video tapes degrade whether you play them or not. Video on tape also degrades in quality every time you play them, due to friction between the VCR head and the tape. New evidence suggests that DVD-R media may last 5 ~ 15 years. Some people claim as low as 2 ~ 5 years. This was no
