For many years the VHS tape reigned supreme over the home video market. It was not until the late 1990s that the DVD started to gain the spotlight. Many consumers quickly changed to the DVD due to its much higher playback quality and “digital” factor. Replacing movies came quite easy to the consumer, just buy the DVD version. But what about home movies?
Many ignored their home movies. In order to put them on DVD, it would require paying a transfer company to convert the VHS movie to DVD. However, if one wants to preserve their videos, they must have the VHS transferred to DVD or another digital format. Why? VHS tapes, like other film based mediums, will deteriorate over time. Having a video transferred to DVD or to a hard drive will extend its life indefinitely.
By transferring VHS to DVD it also allows consumers to edit and modify the video as they want. Old video from a VHS tape could be enhanced, edited, and modified in a way previous technology never could.