If I have my old Vhs/8mm/Beta tapes transferred to DVD, will they end up being DVD quality ?
Sorry to say, but the answer is no. We cannot get more resolution or apparent better signal to noise ratios than what was initially recorded on your original tape to begin with. Your DVD in the case of a Vhs for example, will have no more than 240 lines of resolution, as that’s all that VHS was ever capable of in the first place. If the original video was shot in black & white, then so will your transfer be in black & white. Bear in mind that video tape degrades over time and noise levels and time base errors increase dramatically as the tape ages. The DVD will be as close to the quality of your vintage tape we were able to play back. Newer Digital formats (MiniDV for example) will yield a DVD quality recording if the image quality was DVD quality to begin with. Put another way…… we can copy Lead and we can copy Gold……. but we can’t turn Lead INTO gold. Alchemists have been working on this perplexing problem since the beginning of recorded history….. and sadly, we’re no close
