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Have Broken Video Tapes?

Many of us have had different video cameras / camcorders in the past ranging from the big VCR which you carried on your back and was connected to the camera as well as VHS-C, 8mm, Hi8, Digitial 8 (D8), mini DV and HDV. Since most consumers don't have professional playback decks, the tapes are played back out of the camera that recorded them and as these cameras age the likelihood of them chewing up your videotape increases. Once your videotape is crinkled, twisted, snapped, riffled, broken, etc... a moment of panic sets in because you feel that you might have just lost those precious memories forever! If this sounds familiar, don't worry and certainly don't throw your tapes / memories away. Instead, bring your broken video tapes to Audio Video Workshop and have us provide you with our video tape repair service. We can repair just about any type of video tape format including VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, D8, 8mm, Betamax, DV, mini DV, DVCAM, Betacam SP, and HDV tapes.

Typically, what we do is open up the videotape cassette housing, carefully unwind the damaged section, trim out the damaged section (which usually only equates to a few seconds lost), splice the videotape together with special splicing tape, put the tape back into the housing (or a new housing if it needs it)  and pack the tape by fast forwarding and rewinding the tape (which releives the tape of any loose particles as well as seats the tape evenly on the reels / spools. Finally, we transfer your video to DVD or convert your video to a hard drive in the form of an uncompressed AVI file for the PC or a quicktime file for the MAC. Thus, you will not have to ever worry about breaking your videotape again because they will be digital and there for generations to come!

In addition, we can digitally restore your video tape by running the video signal through our time base corrector and digital filter system. Once the audio and video has been digitized, we can enhance the audio with our digital noise reduction & level optimization process. These enhancements are part of our premium DVD service. Also, we provide audio tape repair services as well. So, bring your broken video tapes into AV-Workshop and Back to Life Today!

mail@av-workshop.com
703 Woodside Road, Suite 3, Redwood City, California 94061
Video Tape Repair Services
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