CAPTURE · AUTHOR · PLAY ANYWHERE
VHS to DVD,
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, files and a year of cloud streaming included.
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 ways to watch, and you don’t have to choose just one.
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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 in the dashboard at no price difference. AI-enhanced orders ship on BluRay only, since a DVD can’t hold a FullHD stream.
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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.
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The files and the cloud, also included
The DVD is a copy, not the master. You get MP4 H.264 files and a free year of cloud streaming to phone, tablet or smart TV. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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: burn another disc, stream it, or run AI enhancement to 1080p on the same capture years later.
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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 in the dashboard at no price difference. AI-enhanced orders ship on BluRay only. 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, that’s the default. Discs for the shelf and the DVD player, MP4 files and a free cloud year for everything else. With cloud active, source files stay downloadable through your subscription plus 90 days after cancellation; disc-only orders have a 30-day download window.
Both come included, so it’s not either-or. Discs suit relatives with DVD players and shelves; cloud suits phones, smart TVs and sharing a link across the family. The honest answer: the cloud link 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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