Why DVD?

Preservation:

• Video tapes are a poor medium for long-term storage. Often, video quality degradation is noticeable after only a few years. Video on tapes often last less than 20 years. DVD is designed to last for generations.

• Tape heads wear on the tape during every viewing. Heat, humidity, and chemical processes slowly destroy your tapes every day. DVD players use light beams to read the spinning disc and thus avoid quality reduction during viewing. Basically, the only way to degrade a DVD is by mishandling or misuse.

• DVD requires much less storage space than many types of video tapes. They are the same size as a CD and come contained in a protective case which is the same size as the case that comes with a DVD you rent from a video rental store.

Convenience:

• Navigation of video tapes requires time-consuming fast-forwarding or rewinding. DVD allows you to skip right to a specific point, by-passing all of the video in between.

• DVD includes a Menu and "Chapters" that enable you to identify specific scenes or events for quick navigation. By selecting a Chapter with the DVD player's remote, you can immediately move to the exact spot within your video that you want to watch.

• DVD enables you to play your video in computers equipped with a DVD drive.

• Transfer to DVD allows an opportunity to eliminate any unwanted video footage.

Quality:

• DVD delivers excellent video quality. While a normal VHS tape only offers 200-300 vertical lines of resolutions, a DVD allows a full 480 lines of vertical resolution and 540 lines of horizontal resolution. DVD is digital and, thus, copies are the same as the original with no loss of quality!

• DVD provides high quality audio for a more enjoyable listening experience.

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