Video Tape Decay

 What can you do with old videos?

It’s Grandad's birthday next week and you are stumped as to what to get him… Suddenly a thought comes to mind; Why not give him and your family the gift of fond memories? Along with the legendary family barbeque, you prepare to show a compilation of the family's most treasured videos. 

One video in particular is in your mind, it’s an old VHS tape that's been sitting in the loft for decades. It’s perfect – The grandchildren sat around Grandad's big grand piano listening to him play. What a happy memory.

You dig up the film to check evrythings in good working order… DISASTER! The tape is ruined, the audio is scratchy, the video is all over the place and static plagues the video. GO URL & LEARN MORE

What’s Gone Wrong?

Research suggests magnetic tapes (like the treasured VHS tape) will go through a 10 to 20 percent loss of signal and a natural decay over the years, even if they have been stored in a good situation. Over a couple of decades your precious film could be destroyed by the natural magnetic decay and be lost forever. 

Everyday your tapes are slipping closer and closer to their resting date. This is why you should act now in order to save and preserve the memories, before it’s too late. We’d love to give you some tips on how to look after your tapes, but the issue is that it's inevitable and will happen no matter the circumstances. Past technologies won’t hold up as well as the modern alternatives.

 

To ensure that this doesn’t happen we recommend that you bring your old VHS tapes to Superphoto to have them digitized and make them last forever in a digital form. While your grandad certainly hasn’t forgotten his family piano concerts, it would be a tragedy to lose that video – the same goes for any other precious films too.