- Try our s-VHS t mail
order service if you can't make it to our shop
- We charge 10% p/p for s-VHS .
- S-VHS to DVD turnaround time is about 7 days
- S-VHS to DVD 24 hour service is availbel. Please add 50%
- Extra copies of the S-VHS DVD are £10 each
- All prices for S-VHS include VAT
- Editing and DVD chaptering is available if required
None of services are set in stone so please do not hesitate
to get in touch with your questions. We give discounts for more
than 5 S-VHS tapes and additional DVD copies.
Drop your S-VHS video tape at our Camden High Street Studios in London
or post your work to us with your instructions and telephone
number . On receipt of your work we will contact you and take
payment by credit card over the phone.
Contact us
S-VHS Video Format :: Info and History
S-VHS video tapes utilises modulation technology making S-VHS picture detail vastly superior to VHS
For recording audio S-VHS kept the audio system used with VHS tapes. Good S-VHS and VHS systems could gave CD-quality sound
Most S-VHS video payer recorders would play older VHS tapes, making S-VHS equipment a good choice for playing any type of VHS tape. Older VHS player recorders cannot play S-VHS tapes as they are not compatible Some more modern VHS player recorders can play S-VHS video tapes but cannot record on them
To record S-VHS video recorders need S-VHS video cassette tape, as the oxide coating on the tape is different to that normal VHS tapes. However both s-VHS tapes and VHS tapes are interchangeable in both types of VHS player recorders. Also, more modern s-VHS players have a setting known as S-VHS ET. S-VHS ET allows s-VHS quality recording on normal quality VHS tapes. The S-VHS ET recorded video cassettes can be viewed in all VHS player recorders.
S-VHS didn't replace VHS video tapes mainly because of the higher cost. Customers would not pay for the higher quality s-VHS tapes and s-VHS player recorders.
The smaller format S-VHS-C camcorder gained a reasonable market share and was used extensively by amateur film maker as the S-VHS quality was good enough to permit editing and the production of master video tapes. DVD player recorders and hard-disk DVDs and DVD camcorders and digitally technology have now eliminated the need for s-VHS video cassettes
S-VHS :: ED-Beta
Sony bought out a video cassette format ed-Beta to compete with S-VHS. ED-Beta gave better luminance bandwidth than S-VHS but the chroma was not too good. In regards audio both S-VHS player recorders offered digital PCM which ED-Beta player recorders did not have
As already stated the consumer was not impressed in general with S-VHS video and VHS video technology outsold s-VHS until the introduction of digital DVD recorders
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