If you rent movies, you have undoubtedly noticed a recent shift away from VHS tapes and toward DVD's at your local store. Why is this happening? Because DVD's are superior to tapes in many ways.

Quality

Movies on DVD's are stored digitally, and have a higher image quality. VHS gives about 250 vertical lines of resolution, while DVD gives nearly 500 lines. DVD's also have a higher chroma bandwidth than VHS tapes. What does all this mean? It means the images from DVD's are sharper, have much more fine detail visible, have better color, and are less noisy (less “snow” in the picture).

Durability

Unfortunately, with repeated viewings tapes wear out. Every time a tape is played, a drum rotating at high speed contacts the delicate surface of the tape. This will eventually cause parts of the tape's magnetic coating to flake off, or partial erasure of the signals on the tape. In either case, the picture starts to look more and more snowy, or may become completely unviewable in spots.

DVD's, on the other hand, use a laser to optically “read” the disc. Since there is no physical contact with the surface, DVD's should last forever (if handled and stored carefully).

Convenience

If you've ever played a DVD, you know how easy it is to find items of interest using the menus, or to jump around using chapter points. Tapes, on the other hand, require lots of searching to find what you want, and lots of waiting for it to rewind.

Your Wedding on DVD

Given all the benefits of DVD's, it should be clear that our wedding videos delivered on DVD are a wise investment.

Since we keep the digital edit masters of your final wedding videos indefinitely, you may purchase DVD authoring for any wedding package we have produced for the amount listed in our price list.

In fact, we can convert any of your home footage into DVD, too, if you like. Call us and we'll give you an quote.