VHS / S-VHS

187 x 102 x 25 mm. The Video Home System (VHS) was introduced in 1977. It is the most common consumer-level analog videocassette magnetic tape format. S-VHS, or Super VHS was introduced in 1987 and is backward compatible with VHS. It provides a much improved horizontal luminance resolution of 400 lines versus 250 for VHS.

Video8 / Hi8 / Digital8:

95 x 62.5 x 15 mm. Three formats in one tape type. The first was Video8, introduced in 1985 and is an analog format similar to VHS, but with much-improved audio quality coupled with a very compact size. Hi8 (high-band video8), is a competitor to the S-VHS and S-VHS-C formats with an increased luminance of 400 lines. Finally, Digital8 utilized the same magnetic tape as Video8 and Hi8 to record a digital signal for even better performance.

MiniDV

65 x 48 x 12 mm. These very small cassettes are also known as S-size. MiniDV cassettes are used for recording baseline DV, DVCAM, and HDV. Each tape holds about 13 GB for one hour of video.

VHS-C / S-VHS-C

92 x 58 x 20 mm. Introduced in 1982, the C stands for compact, which is really the only difference between VHS-C and standard VHS. The tapes can be played on standard VHS or S-VHS machines using a cartridge adapter. S-VHS-C tapes are a compact version of S-VHS and play in an S-VHS player with the same adapter.

Professional & PAL

(Beta, DVCAM, Mini DV HD, 3/4 inch, 1 inch)

We can also transfer a number of professional formats as well as foreign tapes recorded in PAL. Contact us to confirm what you have and we will give you a quote for your specific format.