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Tape is a great medium to shoot film on but a poor way to store video. Tape heads wear on the tape during every viewing and chemical processes are at work destroying your tape every day, even while it sits on the shelf. Things like temperature, dust, and time all play a part in the deterioration of your videotapes. Tapes as little as 10 years old could be in serious jeopardy from wear, disintegration, and magnetic fields.

If properly cared for a DVD will last over 100 years and the quality will be as good on the 100th year as it is the first time you watch it, which is why transferring your video footage to DVD is the smart way to preserve, protect, and organize your memories.

A DVD has many advantages over video tapes. Instead of fast forwarding to a specific spot in your video, a DVD lets you skip right to a specific point, bypassing all of the video in bewtween. The DVD Menu lists "Chapters" which are the places where you want to be able to skip to (usually a new scene or event).
By pressing the MENU button on your DVD player's remote, you can access your menus to the exact spot you want.

Convert your home videos to DVD, and you can preserve your video for 100 years or more. And, unlike tape that
degrades every time you play it, DVDs can be played thousands of times without any changes in quality.

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