VHS Tape & VCR Tapes
If you grew up in the 80’s & 90’s. You may have had a video camera that recorder directly to a VHS tape. More than likely you had a VCR player/recorder that recorder & played VHS tapes. Watching TV shows, movies, home recordings or for any special event.
Those old VHS tapes produced a very good video quality image & sound for it’s time. VHS tapes also lasted a long weather it was played over and over again or just stored away.
Over the years your VCR player probably stop working and playing video tapes was no long an option.
At Works Perfect we have the solution and make it easy for you to watch your old VHS tapes.
We convert those old VHS tapes to DVD.
Transferring the digital VOB files from the DVD’s onto our computers. Converting the VOB files to MP4 digital files.
Putting the digital files onto a USB stick, portable hard drive (HDD) or uploaded to cloud.
Damaged VHS tapes
There are a few ways VHS tapes get damaged. Being dropped, thrown, crushed, melted under the sun etc. VHS tape more than likely can be rescued.
A few things that can done. For example replacing the case of the VHS tape if the VHS tape has a physical damage or if the VHS tape housing assembly is warped.
Splicing the video tape back together if the tape has split. Spooling the VHS tape onto new spools if the spool is damaged or warped. Those are the most common faults we find with damaged VHS tapes.
The most serious issue would be that the tape in the VHS tape is stretched or wrinkled. Or that the information on the VHS tape is no longer there, unfortunately we have no fix for those problems.
Check with us at Works Perfect to see if your VHS tape can be rescued as we are the professionals in providing the very best and up to date service in VHS tape repairs.
VHS tapes with mold/mildew/fungus build up on the tape
Mold/fungus/mildew plays a massive risk growing on VHS tapes.
Keeping VHS tapes stored in a sealed plastic container generally keeps the mold out if the container. Storing it in a room that has no air flow from outside and no moisture (water, steam) around.
Keeping your windows open and airflow from outside running through the house can easily cause mold/fungus growth on your VHS tapes.
All is not lost as at Works Perfect we can clean off that mold/fungus/mildew build up and get the video tapes playing video footage again.
Depending on how bad the tape has been affected by mold and the physical condition.
Mold can play a massive part on how good the quality of the video footage can be played.
History on VHS tapes
What is a VHS tape & what does it stand for? VHS stands for Video Home System, it is a plastic case housing 2 spools of magnetic tape, which spools slowly from one spool to the other.
The magnetic tape is manipulated into a sort of pattern which is recorder and read by a VCR player. All the components in a VHS player or VCR player decipher these patters on the magnetic tape.
Then outputs a signal which is played on a TV.
VHS stand for (Video Home System) is a analog video recording onto a tape cassettes using magnetic tape to record video and audio.
This was made by JVC around the 1970’s then was introduced to the public for home, business. Which revolutionized the television and movie industries.
The television industry saw video cassette recorders (VCR’s) as having the power to advertise.
By allowing the business to captivate the audience, movies at the play of a button in your own home transformed the household.
This allowed the viewers to take control of whatever they got to watch on their TV’s.
Technical Specifications of the VHS Standard
| Tape Width: | 12.70 mm (½ inch) |
| Tape speed: | 3.335 cm/s for NTSC, 2.339 cm/s for PAL |
| Record Time: | Up to 6 hours (SP) using thin tape. Normal tape has a maximum of 3 hours. Note: almost every VCR has a long-play (LP) and some have (EP) mode which slows the tape speed to allow a longer recording time. It can turn a tape recording from 3 hours to 6 hours in LP mode. Or triple the time length for a 3 hour tape to a 9 hour recording. This will reduce the video and sound quality of the recording, but fit a longer duration of footage and sound. |
| Video bandwidth: | VHS – Approx. 3 MHz Super VHS – Approx. 5 MHz |
| Horizontal resolution: | VHS – Approx. 240 lines Super VHS – Approx. 400 |
| Vertical resolution: | VHS – 486 lines for NTSC, 576 lines in PAL Super VHS – 486 lines for NTSC, 576 lines in PAL |
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