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Video conversion service for How-It-Works.Aspx

Video To Digital Conversion

Our video conversion service is based in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, but is available nationwide, including How-It-Works.Aspx. Just send your videos to us, we will professionally convert them and then return your tapes along with a DVD or memory stick.

We can convert videos into mp4 files or DVD discs.

When placing your order, we will quote you a price and an estimated completion date, and we only ever return your videos via recorded delivery, normally through Royal Mail, however we are happy to use any courier you specify, and we will only ever charge you delivery fees at cost.

We can convert most types of video tapes, including VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Digital8, Video8 and Cine Films using high end conversion techniques to ensure the quality of the digital file accurately reflects the content on your tape.

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PAL is a television broadcast standard used in the UK, it consists of 576 lines with 25 frames displayed per second. PAL was adopted by mostly european countries, though some countries such as France, adopted a slightly different version called SECAM.

NTSC is a television standard used the USA & Canada, it consists of 486 lines with 29.97 frames displayed per second. As the USA became popular for UK tourists, many consumers purchased NTSC camcorders or VHS tapes and could not play them in the UK. Manufacturers tweaked their players so that NTSC video tapes could be played on PAL TV's, but these were usually in poor quality.

DVD is an optical disk format, developed by Sony, Philips, Toshiba and Panasonic in the 90's. DVD's typically hold 4.7GB of data, approximately 2 hours of video. There are however, dual-layer DVD's that hold twice this amount, allowing upto 4 hours on a single disk. DVD's require most movies to be compressed in order to fit onto a disc, e.g. a 2 hour uncompressed movie could easily take up 40GB of data, and the only way to compress the movie down (and keep it the same length!) is to compress the movie, which in reality means that parts of every frame will need to be deleted. This sounds scary, however it's not as bad as it seems, if you imagine a scene such as a local football match, the difference between one frame and the next will be tiny, e.g. the sky and clouds will be the same, and so in theory all you need to record is the first frame, and then the differences from one frame to the next. This means that your choice of software you use to perform the compression is crucial and will make a dramatic difference to your final DVD quality.

MP4 is a digital video file that contains both video and audio. These files can be uploaded to cloud services such as Youtube and shared like any normal file. PC's and MAC's are normally bundled with software to play MP4 files, as are smart TV's, mobile phones and tablets.

Pixave will convert your old video tapes (Hi8, VHS-C, Digital8, Video 8) to a modern digital format, such as DVD or MP4. DVD's include a full menu.

Remember that we provide a full UK nationwide service and will only charge postage / courier fees back to How-It-Works.Aspx

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Key features

  • £7.50p for MP4 only
  • £10.00p for DVD only
  • £15.00p for DVD & MP4
  • DVD or MP4 format
  • Priced per tape
  • Any length of tape
  • NTSC or PAL
  • High quality digital conversions
  • High quality DVD discs
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Further Information


Prices

How much does it cost?

We will convert video tapes to a modern MP4 format for £7.50 per tape.

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How it works

What happens next ?

You can of course contact us or use our online system to get a quote and place an order, then just send your photo's to us. We will take great care of your photos.

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Why scan your video's ?

Preserve your family history

Want to share your scans with your children ? Or are you having a wedding, perhaps a big birthday coming up and want to embarrass the lucky person ?

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Sharing your images

Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc

Share your scanned images with the world through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox etc and let the world enjoy!

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