Betamax to DVD Conversion or Transfer in the UK

Freshcut DVD provides a professional Betamax to DVD transfer or conversion service.

Freshcut DVD is the authority in the UK when it comes to betamax to DVD conversion or Betamax transfer. We use state-of-the-art equipment to make sure the job is done to the highest technical specification resulting in the best quality DVD that can be created from the original tape source. Freshcut DVD is based in London, UK.

• Digital re-mastering of your Betamax Tape
• Audio level balancing and enhancement
• Picture enhancement
• Audio converted to Dolby Stereo
• The resulting video streams are authored and burned to DVD. We can get as much as four hours on a single DVD with most customers remarking that the resulting video is clearer, sharper and sounds better!

Freshcut DVD converted tapes of my family from 22 year old Betamax, I was amazed with the improved sound and picture quality, Thanks !

Trust Freshcut DVD to preserve your memories and make sure you know what you are buying! There are many tape to dvd conversion companies who simply plug your precious memories into low quality DVD recorders and send you the result. This is the inferior way to preserve your memories as no digital corrections can be made to the video or the audio. For more information see the benefits of using Freshcut DVD.

The two major standards were Sony's Betamax (also known as Betacord or just Beta), and JVC's VHS. Betamax was generally reckoned to make and play slightly better quality recordings and used smaller media, but VHS rapidly overtook it in sales.

As more VHS recorders came into use, and more VHS films became available, network effects eventually squeezed Betamax out of the consumer market; though a related system called Betacam still remains in use for high quality professional recording equipment.

Various reasons are given for the failure of the Beta consumer format:

Some accounts claim that VHS won because initially allowed for twice the recording time Others attribute the success of VHS to the greater availability of pornography on that medium, reflecting the long standing tradition of pornography being the driving force for the takeup of new media (the Internet being another obvious example). JVC and Sony used different marketing models for their technology: JVC licensed their VHS technology to consumer electronics companies like Zenith and RCA, which then produced low-cost VCRs, enriching JVC through royalties paid under its license. Sony did not license the Beta format to other manufacturers; Sony was the only company to produce Beta machines, and Sony was unable to compete on price with the somewhat inferior-quality VHS standard.

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