Thursday, September 06, 2007

VHS-C to DVD transfer services



Azure Production now transfers VHS-C to DVD. We pick up and drop off in the Toronto area. Most transfers can be done the same day.

VHS-C is the compact VHS format introduced in 1982[1] and used primarily for consumer-grade compact camcorders. The format is based on the same videotape as is used in VHS, and can be played back in a standard VHS VCR with an adapter. Though quite inexpensive, the format is largely obsolete even as a consumer standard and has been replaced in the marketplace by digital video formats, which offer smaller form factors and better video quality.

A size comparison between the original VHS format, VHS-C, and the more recent MiniDV.
The magnetic tape on VHS-C cassettes is wound on one main spool and used a sort of a gear wheel which moves the tape forward. It can also be moved by hand and so is the spool. This development hampered the sales of the Betamax system somewhat, because the Betamax cassette geometry prevented a similar development.

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