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Many of you may be familiar with the different types of DVD discs but may asking, “What is a DVD-RAM disc?” What is a DVD-RAM Disc? DVD-RAM is much similar to a DVD+R and DVD-R disc. But it’s not a disc per se but is housed in a cartridge. Because of this you can’t play […]
DVD+R and DVD-R are blank write-once recordable DVDs. The R stands for Recordable. Their cousins are DVD+RW and DVD-RW. RW stands for Rewritable. You can copy digital data to RW discs, erase and write on them again. DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs are more expensive and are used to test disc copying/burning for temporary data storage […]
Updated 6.11.2020 Why Convert VHS to DVD? If you have a bunch of home video VHS tapes, lying around , now is the time to record them to DVD or digital. If you procrastinate on converting your VHS tapes to DVD or digital, you run the risk of losing their contents or being left with […]
With 8mm video playback devices becoming rare, it’s high time you convert your collection of family 8mm video to DVD or a digital format as soon as possible. Nobody knows when your tapes would suffer water damage or heat damage, not to mention physical damage. If such an unfortunate situation happens, you would have to […]
Updated 31.10.2020 If you need to quickly convert a video file, the best option would be to use a free online video converter. Free online video converters are becoming popular among video producers and regular users, especially smartphone users who quickly need to convert and shrink large video files to be shared over their mobile […]
Updated 20.3.2022 How to Transfer VHS to DVD without a Capture Device or Computer The most common method of converting your VHS to DVD is through the use of a video capture device and a computer. What if you don’t want to go through the hassle of setting up your computer with a video capture […]
Difference between MTS & M2TS? MTS vs M2TS? If you have been recording video in a AVCHD camcorder, you would have come across these two file extensions – .mts and m2ts MTS and M2TS MTS and M2TS are the video container formats or wrappers used by the MPEG-4 AVC /H264 codec employed by AVCHD camcorders […]
Updated June 2020 You may have been playing back your 8mm cassettes, whether Video 8, Hi-8, or Digital8 via your camcorder. Then the worst happened. Your camcorder no longer works. You don’t want to buy another camcorder to playback your 8mm cassettes. You don’t intend to shoot video with an 8mm camcorder. You wonder if […]
Steps to Digitize Analog Video If you’ve been actively creating video in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s, chances are you would have build up a sizable collection of analog video probably in in the form of VHS or 8 mm tapes. You would be wondering how you could preserve these personal memories and pass […]
How is Analog Video Created? Analog video is created when a video camera records continuous red, green and red light patterns., resulting in a waveform. . How Analog Video is Captured in a Video Camera When light enters the camcorder lens, it hits the image sensor chip, creating an electrical charge. The stronger the light, […]