How to look at his old VHS?- Full life

If video viewing gestures have been simplified today, if the offer has been powerfully widened, the fact remains that sometimes, the desire can take us to watch the video cassette of a film of a filmfamily, of his wedding, of a time recorded on a band.In short, so many content that can sometimes be the source of frustration when one realizes that you no longer have a video recorder.Fortunately, there are solutions.

Watch its old video cassettes thanks to the scanning

Digitization, do you know?Concretely, it is a question of recovering the content present on the strip of its cassette and of transposing it on a medium readable by other devices.A kind of conversion from VHS format to digital format, to the delight of your memories!To do this, the simplest technique remains to turn to digitization specialists.Today, there are services dedicated to counting, online but also in stores.Photographers, videographers, cinema experts, there is necessarily a professional in your city to guide you.Count between 15 and 30 € to convert an hour of VHS to digital format.USB key, wetransfer, DVD, everything is possible, everything is possible, everything is ... digitable!

Digade your VHS yourself

If the technique is more complex, you still need to know that it is possible to digitize your video cassettes yourself.For this, the principle is simple: connecting your magnetoscope (or camcorder) to your computer thanks to an adapter, on which is installed capture software (this is particularly possible with, among others VLC, Soft4boost or even Virtual VCR).The idea?Recover the image directly from the software, and digitize the latter.

It is also possible to record the VHS on a DVD, provided you have a DVD-VHS handset, which has the functionality of saving the two formats.Launch a cassette on one side, a blank DVD on the other, and start the engraving/recording.

If these operations are a little longer and delicate than the services of a professional, the fact remains that they can work just as well.While the VHS are and will now remain souvenir objects, worthy of Madeleines de Proust, it is also possible to keep them by transforming them into decorative objects: photo frame, rigid pocket, there are a thousand and one ways to customize your cassettes.And let's not forget that, just like vinyl, the latter may come back to fashion in a few years.

If you still want to get rid of them, it is important to sort them properly: the magnetic strip is stored in the non -recyclable waste tank, while the rigid shell can be recycled.What leave the past behind you, but not the planet!