What Should You Do With Old VHS Tapes? A Guide to Recycling / Disposing of VHS Tapes, Audio Cassettes, and More Do you have old VHS tapes that are sitting around collecting dust? Video Tapes have essentially become obsolete due to the rise of Digital mp4 Files and DVDs. Now, many people are…
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Video Enhancement – We Enhance Video to DVD – Bay Area Have you Checked your Videos Lately? Unlike film, videotape does not last that long. Most videotapes from the 1980’s and 1990’s are showing their age. Videotape can start to fail in as little as 10 years. since videotape is magnetic and rubs on the heads…
DetailsShooting High Quality Video on iPhone and Android Shooting high quality video on iPhone and smartphones is convenient and easy; however, when those home videos are transferred and played on a larger screen, you may notice that the video didn’t come out as you might have hoped. Here are a few easy tips to best utilize your…
DetailsHistoric Santa Cruz Skateboard / Surf Archives Converted to HD mp4 AV Workshop Preserves 8mm Film and U-Matic Tapes to HD Digital Files A well-known Santa Cruz skateboard distribution company brought AV Workshop their historic collection of tapes and films for transfer to digital mp4 files. These archives documented some of the top surfers…
DetailsOver 100 Hours of Deep Ocean Dive Videotapes Digitized to HD mp4 National Scientific Research Organization’s MiniDV Archive Converted to Digital mp4 with HD upres A national scientific research agency recently entrusted AV Workshop with the task of digitally archiving over a hundred hours of local deep dive ocean MiniDV tapes. The research agency…
Details100 Hours of Vintage Racing Videos Digitally Preserved Customer’s Personal VHS Collection Converted to DVD Long time AV Workshop customer Bernardo M., brought in his distinguished Vintage Racing VHS tape Collection for transfer to DVD. Bernardo recorded these races every season over a 10 year period in the 1990s and 2000s. The VHS tapes…
DetailsHistoric Basketball Coach Frederick Snowden U-matic Tape Archives Preserved to Digital Coach Frederick Snowden College Basketball Archives Transferred to HD mp4 Files AV Workshop recently converted a historic archive of 3/4″ U-matic college basketball videotapes to High Definition mp4 Files. These videotapes feature Frederick Snowden, also known as ‘The Fox’, the first black head…
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Do your MiniDV Tapes suffer from Digital Pixelation – Dropout? Have you played your MiniDV camcorder tapes lately and noticed large rectangular pixels onscreen? Clean your Heads These rectangular pixels on your Mini DV can result from a couple of things. Videotape camcorders and cameras utilize a tape transport system with a video drum and…
DetailsAV Workshop’s HD Upres Video Transfer Add On Learn More About our HD Upres Option You may have noticed that when you watch old videotapes, they often have a flickering, blurry appearance. This is because video was originally made for old 4×3 interlaced tube TVs. Interlaced refers to the method in which the picture…
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