CAPTURE · AUTHOR · PLAY ANYWHERE

VHS to DVD,
done the modern way.

We don’t dub tape to disc. We capture your VHS professionally to digital files, you arrange the disc in your dashboard, and the DVD set is included in the package price. From $7.50 per tape, downloadable MP4 files included.

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A VHS cassette beside a DVD disc in an open case
i. What you get

A DVD set, and everything behind it.

DVD delivery is included in every Basic and Advanced package. It’s one of three delivery options (DVD, BluRay or cloud), and you pick one at checkout.

  1. The disc set, included

    Playable discs for every standard DVD player and computer drive. A single-layer DVD holds about two hours at full quality; longer collections span multiple discs in the set, still included in the package price. Prefer BluRay? Pick it at checkout at no price difference. If you enhance some of your videos with AI before the discs are burned, those enhanced versions go on BluRay, since a DVD can’t hold a FullHD stream.

  2. A disc you designed, not a default

    Before anything is burned, your captures sit in your dashboard. Reorder clips, rename them with your own titles, cut the dead air, group into chapters and lay out the disc menu. We burn the assembly you finalize. Most VHS to DVD services hand back whatever order the tapes went in.

  3. The files are yours either way

    The DVD is a copy, not the master. You also get MP4 H.264 files to download from your dashboard for 30 days after your order is completed. Save a local copy, and if a disc is ever scratched or the player finally dies, your footage doesn’t care.

ii. The method

Why capture-then-author beats dubbing.

Old-school VHS to DVD meant wiring a VCR into a DVD recorder and copying in real time. It works. It also bakes every problem of the tape into the disc forever.

  1. The signal gets corrected first

    Our decks run time base correction during capture: Line TBC on Basic, Full-Frame TBC on Advanced. Jitter, wavy edges and unstable sync get fixed before the footage exists as a file. A direct dub copies them onto the disc permanently.

  2. The disc is authored, not recorded

    Dubbing gives you one two-hour block with no structure. Authoring gives chapters, a menu, titles you chose, and no twenty minutes of blank tape at the end. Same disc format, entirely different object.

  3. The master outlives the disc

    With a dub, the DVD is the only copy, and a scratch is a small funeral. With capture-first, the digital file is the master: download it and keep your own copy, and a scratched disc is no longer the end of your footage.

  4. DVD resolution fits VHS honestly

    DVD is a standard-definition format, and so is VHS. Nothing is lost in the match. If you want the footage upscaled beyond what a DVD can hold, that’s the AI path, and it ships on BluRay. No one should sell you an “HD DVD” of a VHS tape.

Same pricing as everything else: from $7.50 per tape.

VHS to DVD isn’t a separate product here. It’s Basic or Advanced Digitization with the disc set included. The calculator shows the exact total.

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iii. Q & A

VHS to DVD questions.

The short answers people want before ordering discs.

Yes. Disc delivery is included in every Basic and Advanced package: you pick DVD or BluRay at checkout at no price difference. If you add AI Enhancement to some videos before the discs are burned, the enhanced versions come on BluRay. There is no separate burning fee.

A single-layer DVD holds roughly two hours at full quality, so one long tape or a couple of short ones per disc. Bigger collections simply become a multi-disc set, included in the package price. You control what goes where in the dashboard.

Yes. The MP4 files come either way: pick discs at checkout and they stay downloadable from your dashboard for 30 days after your order is completed; pick cloud and they stay downloadable through your subscription, plus 30 days after it ends if you don’t renew.

You pick one at checkout. Discs suit relatives with DVD players and shelves; cloud suits phones, smart TVs and sharing your videos with family and friends. The honest answer: the cloud gets watched more, the discs get kept.

Tapes in, discs and files out.

Two tapes cost $25, DVDs included. Portland pickup is free; mail-in works from anywhere in the U.S.

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