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If it's got sound or picture, Pro Video can put it on DVD

DVD is the next generation of video storage. With the capacity for high quality sound and video, DVD has surpassed video tapes as the new industry standard in quality video storage. DVD is the first video format that will truly last a lifetime. Pro Video preserves your video and home movies onto DVD.

Imagine having a video that will never lose quality. Your video on DVD will look and sound as good generations from now as it did the day you taped it. Some other benefits of DVD are their incredible amount of storage space. A VHS tape, if set to it's maximum record time, can average about 6 hours of full screen low quality video. A Video-CD can hold about 12 minutes of properly compressed full screen video. With a DVD, we can put up to 2 hours of full screen digital video and audio on each disc.

 
 

Remember these three items when determining your desire to transfer your video to DVD.

  1. DVD-R discs have an estimated life span of at least 100 years (DVD Video discs, because of the different technology used to manufacture them, are estimated to last hundreds of years)
  2. The quality of video on a DVD is significantly better than that of VHS
  3. VHS technology is becoming older each day - As of October of 2005 Target stores won't offer VHS tapes of videos to their customers and in January 2006 Walmart stores will be doing the same.  It's time to try to keep up with technology and get all of your videos onto DVD.
 
 

 
 

DVD Technical Information

A small plastic disc used for the storage of digital audio and/or video data.

A DVD can have as much as 26 times the storage capacity of a CD. DVD allows for significantly better graphics and greater resolution than other storage methods. Video data is digitally encoded on the 4-3/4 inch (12-cm) disc as a series of microscopic pits on a highly polished surface. During playback, these pits are read and decoded by a laser beam, so nothing touches the encoded disc surface; therefore the DVD is not worn out or degraded by the playing process so a DVD's useable life extends well beyond any previous storage method, 100 years, perhaps longer.