Digital Specialists

VHS description
VHS (Video Home System) is an analog system that was developed by the Japanese company JVC and has been in use since the late 1970s. In the 1980s it became the most popular video tape format as its open standard allowed for mass distribution without licensing costs. The VHS tape beat out BetaMax to become the universal standard for video recording until optical disks such as DVD and Blu-ray were able to provide higher quality video.

VHS-c description
VHS-C is the compact VHS format introduced in 1982 and used primarily for consumer-grade compact camcorders. The format is based on the same videotape as is used in VHS, and can be played back in a standard VHS VCR with an adapter. The magnetic tape on VHS-C cassettes is wound on one main spool and used as a gear wheel which moves the tape forward. This development hampered the sales of the BetaMax system because the BetaMax cassette geometry prevented a similar development. VHS-C was one of the pioneering formats of the compact camcorder market, and was released to compete with Video8. VHS-C was larger than Video8, but was compatible with VHS tape decks, making the choice between the two very competitive, thus splitting the market; VHS-C also eventually crowded full-sized VHS camcorders out of the market. Compared with Video8, VHS-C had identical video quality but a shorter run time, 120 versus 40 minutes at standard speed, 240 versus 120 for longer-running modes.

S-VHS description
S-VHS (Super-VHS) is an improved version of the standard VHS tape. It was introduced by JVC in April, 1987 in Japan. Like VHS, the S-VHS format uses a “color under” modulation scheme. S-VHS improves luminance resolution by boosting the luminance carrier from 3 MHz to 5.4 MHz. This produces a 60% improvement in luminance (picture detail), or a horizontal resolution of 420 lines per picture height versus 240 lines on standard VHS. The often quoted horizontal resolution of “over 400″ means S-VHS captures greater picture detail than even analog (NTSC) cable broadcast TV, which is limited to about 330 lines.

Video & Camcorder Tapes
Since the advent of the VCR most people have taken 100s of hours of footage. The problem is that VCRs won’t be around much longer. A trip down to the local electronics store can be pretty revealing. There is currently no plans to continue selling VHS recorder and they soon expect that the players will be discontinued all together. In fact, your regular DVD player is soon to be replaced with BluRay.

If you need to Convert VHS, convert 8mm, convert VHSc, convert BetaMax to DVD or any other video tape format Toronto Home Movies can do the job.

• VHS to DVD
• 8mm tape to DVD
• Hi8 tape to DVD
• Pal to NTSC tape conversions BetaMax to DVD

At TorontoHomeMovies.com we specialize in converting your old fading video footage, be it or some of the more rare formats such as SVHS, VHSc, Beta and SuperBeta. The conversion could be as straight forward as VHS to DVD or we can even convert to .avi or .mov for those people who wish to edit their Hi8 tape,VHS, VHSc, SVHS, Cassette tape, 8mm Tape, Pal Secam and NTSC tapes, MiniDV, Digital 8 tapes.

We use only professional video equipment that is tested and serviced to ensure the highest quality transfers. Your video tape restoration will be completed onto the higest quality DVD discs that are compatible with 99% of the DVD players used today. We guarantee it.

While most of our customers are looking to convert their video tape to DVD, recently we have had numerous requests for VHS, Hi8, 8mm tape and MiniDV to .avi or .dv formats. If you are an amateur editor, or even a pro we can upload your footage to your personal hard drive (we offer a number of drives for sale too) or in many cases back to a digital video format.

Here is a list of the services we offer for converting Video Tape – DVD

We even repair broken tapes!!
If your VHS, 8mm, Hi8 VHSc and Audio Cassette tape was jammed in the VCR and the tape is mangled and crinkled then send it to us. Do not rewind the tape into the tape housing. Leave it "as is". Tampering with the damaged tape or trying to disassemble the plastic cassette housing may result in further damage. We will make a DVD copy of damaged tape. DVDs do not lose the video signal (over time) like video tapes do.

So if you are searching for a reputable company in the Toronto, Ontario region or any where in Canada you can send us your Hi8 tape,VHS, VHSc, SVHS, Cassette tape, 8mm Tape, Pal Secam and NTSC tapes, MiniDV, Digital 8 tapes to have them converted to DVD or MiniDV.

Professional Video Services
Do you need the footage for a special project like an wedding anniversary, birthday party or a tribute video? We can upload your footage and output your footage to uncompressed clean digital footage right to your hard drive as either an .avi or .mov depending on weather you plan to edit in Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Pro or Apple Final Cut. Our team of of editors can handle ANY part of your editing process.