VHS tapes are big, chunky, and take up a lot of space around your home. They’re also not very attractive to look at and can make a space, like a shelf, look cluttered and full. By choosing to convert your old VHS tapes, you can compile footage from all your tapes onto one small USB stick. A 4GB USB stick can hold around twenty-one hours of footage, whereas a standard VHS tape only holds two hours – that’s about ten tapes on one USB stick! Save space in your home and choose to convert your old VHS tapes to a digital format.

Not only is it highly unlikely that your friends and family will have a VHS player but lending your loved-ones a VHS tape is inconvenient. If your tape gets physically damaged on its travels then your family’s memories are lost with no back-up and if you’re lending them more than one tape, they’re going to need to carry them around. Digitising your home movies means that you can email them to your friends and family and make copies that are easily sharable and make great gifts too

VHS Tapes are magnetic strips and are designed to have a shelf life of 20-30 years. T his tape format can deteriorate to such an extent that it will no longer be playable. Once this happens the footage on them will certainly be lost forever if not digitised.