Your videotape has a limited lifespan.
Digital, gives video, a whole new lease on life.

Some important thoughts on consumer and corporate videotape conversion...
In the past several years, there have been many small startup companies with little or no
experience, national discount retail chains, pharmacy chains, even companies that offer
"all-in-one" units for purchase or lease, all to convert video. The sad fact is, we receive more
calls every month from people experiencing problems with their videotape conversion after
doing it themselves or trusting an outside source to do a proper conversion. Sometimes video
has been converted to DVD with issues ranging from generally poor conversion quality, mild to
severe disk playback errors, or problems when copying or converting DVD disk media. Some
disks won't play at all after only a year or two. If the client has gone only to DVD and the disk
has been physically damaged, in most cases there is no backup made and their video is lost.
If a corporate or consumer client has converted their own media in-house, there are most likely
problems with the converted media. Issues can range from simply poor quality to digital data
errors that cannot be seen without analysis but will effect playback, duplication and migration
to future formats.


Why does videotape have a limited lifespan?
Videotape is composed of several different layers of materials. For both older analog and
newer digital videotape, consumer or professional formats, the end-result is the same.
Videotape breaks down, loosing signal information, virtually erasing itself over time. Tape also
wears each time it is played. It can be damaged if run through a player that has not been
properly maintained and can be erased when placed next to electronic or magnetic equipment.
It is also getting harder to find reliable working playback units for many of the older analog
formats.



The K. Robinson Media Inc process - what makes us different?


Formats:
At K. Robinson Media Inc, we have the ability to convert to disk for simple viewing or video file for editing,
archiving, restoration and improvement. We are always upgrading our capabilities. If you do
not see the format you need converted, check with us. As of June 2010 we convert the
following formats:

VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C (both NTCS and PAL)
8mm, Hi8mm, Digital 8mm
Mini-DV (both NTSC and PAL)
DVCAM (including full sized cassettes, both NTSC and PAL)
DVC-PRO25 (both NTSC and PAL)