Copy DVD to VHS in the UK from just £25.00

Freshcut DVD provides a professional service which specialises in tape conversion. We copy DVD to VHS as one of our key services in London, UK.

Why should I copy my old VHS Tape to DVD? Well its deteriorating all the time, Video tapes have a maximum life of about 20 years, although the tape quality will start to dgrade long before then already. The presence of moisture in the air affects the substrate of the tape, and even though your tapes may be stored in a cool place out of light, the presence of moisture can severly degrade your tape over time. We recomend that you copy your vhs tape to DVD as soon as possible. DVD is a far more resilliant format, and the typical life expectancy of a DVD is in the region of 100 years.

Freshcut DVD have long standing experience when it comes to conversions and wecopy DVD to VHSregularly. We use high end specification equipment to make sure the conversion is performed to the highest technical specification resulting in the best quality DVD that can be created from the original tape source. Freshcut DVD is based in London, UK but services any country around the world.

This service includes
1. Digital re-mastering of your VHS Tape
2. Audio level balancing and enhancement
3. Picture enhancement, far superior to VHS
4. Audio converted to Dolby Stereo

The resulting video streams are authored and burned to DVD. We can get as much as four hours on a single DVD, however we do not reccomend more than two hours of video due to picture degradation that can happen at these levels of compression. Generally, the picture is clearer and sharper and DVD's don't strech like tapes do, so your sound is far better!

Don’t let your VHS Tape memories fade away, preserve them with Freshcut DVD!

Trust Freshcut DVD to preserve your memories and make sure you know what you are buying! There are many companies that copy DVD to VHSwho simply plug your precious memories into low quality DVD recorders and send you the result. This is the inferior way to preserve your memories as no digital corrections can be made to the video or the audio. For more information see the benefits of using Freshcut DVD.

Our process used to copy DVD to VHS.

1) Capture the Video source with the proper equipment - make sure you have a decent capture card otherwise the reults will allways be poor.

2) Capture the video to MPEG-2, if you try AVI first you will spend ages transcoding and the video will also be second generation.

3) Compress the audio to dolby (ac3). This will allow you to keep the maximum bitrate possible dedicated to the video.

4) Author using a popular auhoring program

5) Burn

6) Ask Freshcut DVD to do this. If you try yourself, you may waste many discs trying various formats before you find one compattible with your player. In addition, you need to ensure that you get the maximum bitrate available for your conversion.

As the process typically takes about the length of the video plus 4 hours of machine and operator time its really esier and better to use Freshcut DVD.

A Quick Note on Region codes

DVD movies can contain a region code, denoting which area of the world it is targeted at, which is completely independent of encryption. The commercial DVD-video player specification dictates that players must only play discs that contain their region code. This allows the film studios to set different retail prices in different markets and extract the maximum possible price from consumers. With region coding, studios can dictate release schedules and prices around the world. However, many DVD players allow playback of any disc, or can be modified to do so.

The DVD's we burn are region free, or region zero, so they will play on any DVD player regardless of it's region setting

A Quick Note on copy DVD to VHS

Legalities aside, note that Hollywood VHS tapes that can't be copied from VHS deck to VHS deck can be captured by your computer and converted to DVD. That's because the copy protection scheme used by Hollywood subtly affects VHS deck writing heads in a way that doesn't impact video capture on the computer.

As with all video captures, however, you'll get substantially better results if you capture via S-Video, an output most consumer VHS decks don't support. It will work with composite inputs, but you may be disappointed with the quality.

For an informed and authorative conversion process, make sure you use the experts.

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