Everyone probably knows someone with a videotape that is precious to that person. Most VHS videos were created in the 1980's and 1990's with a VHS camcorder, or they were copied from a Master tape and given out to a group, such as for parents who had children in a school performance or Recital. There were even high resolution Professional SVHS cameras that produced surprisingly good results as long as one used the right VHS, SVHS playback machine to view the image.
Discovering a VHS tape today that was from the distant past could be worth transferring to a digital format. The newly discovered VHS tape could be of a trip to Disneyland, a wedding video, a birthday party, a bat or bar mitvah, a communion, a demo tape, vacation tape, actual Super 8mm film home movies transferred to VHS, birthing videotape, graduation, baby shower, surprise party, party given at work, retirement party, how to tape, memoirs tape, corporate video, or a lovely remembrance of people having fun on a nice summer day.
Transfer experts nowadays may tell you that there is little difference in quality between VHS machines that can play back a VHS tape because the real improvement in quality occurs after the VHS video tape is digitized. Sadly this is just not accurate. In the early 90's VHS and SVHS technology was developed that allowed for VHS and SVHS images to have up to 10 different adjustments made that enhanced the VHS, S-VHS image quality. These machines cost between $5,000 to $7,500 dollars back then!
Even if someone uses one of these expensive VHS and SVHS machines today to max out the quality of a VHS or SVHS videotape it actually takes a bit of time to master the various combinations of adjustments that can be made to both the video and the audio quality of a VHS or S-VHS videotape.
i have over 12 years of experience on these high quality machines and some of the adjustments I learned to make were not necessarily explained in the Instruction Manual for the machine.
If you are an archivist with a videotape archive at your disposal, or you had a vhs transfer to digital made and you are not happy with the quality or wonder if the quality could be improved over an older transfer, give my Studio and myself a shot to show you just how good your VHS or SVHS can really look.
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