How to Transfer VHS Tapes to Your PC in 8 Simple Steps

Old VHS tapes is something that most people have, and it’s one of the most urgent memories to digitize since acetate tapes shrinks and gets more and more fragile with age. Here with an overview of the DIY transfer process for old VHS tapes is guest blogger Carmen Docampo! Take it away, Carmen! Transfer Old VHS Tapes Now! Technology moves at a rapid pace and some of our most treasured memories are stuck on old tech that we just can’t access anymore. If you were born before the mid-1990s, the chances are that you likely have lots of home movies on VHS tapes ‌you haven’t looked at in years. The good news is, those videos aren’t lost forever. You can digitize and store them on your computer quite easily, but you have to ask fast. It’s quite important to get to it as soon as possible because VHS tapes can degrade over time. At worst, the quality of the footage will degrade by around 20% as each decade passes. At best, you’re looking at around 20% every 25 years. This is still a lot of degradation as time goes by, especially if you’ve got older videos that you want […]