{"id":1615,"date":"2020-10-06T09:24:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T08:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2021-08-04T15:04:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:04:26","slug":"why-you-should-transform-your-favourite-christmas-movies-into-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/why-you-should-transform-your-favourite-christmas-movies-into-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Transform Your Favourite Christmas Movies into DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is nothing better at Christmas time than getting together with the whole family, gathering around the TV and watching old home videos taken at Christmases gone by. Whether it\u2019s footage from just a few years ago or even many decades past, there is nothing more wonderful than showing the kids and grandkids Christmas celebrations from before their time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

But if your videos were filmed a long time ago, chances are\nyou recorded them on a camcorder, and only have the footage available on an old\nVHS tape. VHS tapes were great back in the day, a real revolution to the home\nfilm industry. But their time has long past, and VHS tapes are obsolete. If you\nstill have some lying around, make sure you transfer\nvideo to DVD<\/a> now in time for Christmas. Here\u2019s why you should get\nthose Christmas films updated onto a DVD:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"VHS<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Better\nfor Transporting<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

VHS tapes are clunky and bulky; there\u2019s no denying that,\nespecially when you compare them to their slender DVD counterparts. People can\ntravel quite far at Christmas to visit relatives, so if you\u2019re visiting the\nwhole family and want to bring along those old tapes of Christmases gone by,\nyou don\u2019t want to be laden down with bulky videos that take up a lot of space\nin your overnight bag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DVDs are much slimmer and lighter, and their boxes take up\nhardly any room at all. If you want to save even more space in your bag, you\ncan put the discs into a plastic wallet and forgo the box entirely. The disc\nwill remain protected, and you\u2019ll be able to take dozens of discs with you to\nenjoy at Christmas with hardly any extra weight to carry at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could even go one step further with a VHS to MP4<\/a> conversion and bring your Christmas\nfilms with you on a USB stick. Either way, a DVD or MP4 version of your footage\nwill be much easier to carry when you ditch those VHS tapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easier to\nWatch<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How many people still have a VHS player in their homes? The\nanswer is not many, and that number is decreasing all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As more and more people abandon the VHS in favour of the\nDVD, it\u2019s going to be more difficult to play those tapes at other people\u2019s\nhouses. The last VHS player was manufactured in 2016, so it\u2019s virtually\nimpossible to buy one new, and charity shops rarely sell them. They are truly\nobsolete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While you may still have one of your own, you can hardly\nexpect to cart it to your child\u2019s home for Christmas dinner just to watch your\nold Christmas films. But when you have DVD copies of your footage, you take\naway the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DVDs are playable on a range of devices, rather than just\nbeing limited to one like the VHS. They can be played in DVD players, on\ncomputers and laptops and even on game consoles. Virtually everyone owns a computer,\nand many people have game consoles. So when you take your converted DVDs round\nto your relative\u2019s house, you can rest assured that they will most likely have\na device capable of playing it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"DVD\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Customisable\nMenu and Skipping<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The problem with VHS tapes is that what you play is what you\nget. They play through from start to finish and need to be rewound at the end\nto start it from the beginning again. DVDs do not have this issue and instead\noffer a menu option at the start so you can choose where to play the footage\nfrom. You can also skip through the footage to get to the bits you want. No\nneed to sit through the entire ten-minute segment of Uncle Joe trying to carve\nthe turkey, you can skip straight past it to the good stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Menus can be added to DVDs relatively easily, so you can\npick where in the footage you want to break it up. You can also customise the\ntitles for each section of footage and add images and text to the menu. So not\nonly do you get your footage backed up onto a more reliable format, but DVDs\noffer you the chance to customise certain elements and create a more pleasing\nmedium for watching old Christmas films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They Make\nGreat Christmas Gifts <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Finally, a DVD conversion of an old film makes an excellent gift for Christmas. If you have a relative that just loves re-watching family footage, then give them a gift they will really love this year by updating their VHS tapes onto a reliable DVD format. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Father<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At Video2DVD, we have decades of experience transferring treasured memories, dealing with all manner of formats such as Betamax and Hi8<\/a> and producing them onto DVDs and digital file formats. As we head into the Christmas season, give your loved ones the precious gift of their home videos on DVD or MP4 format. Contact us today for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is nothing better at Christmas time than getting together with the whole family, gathering around the TV and watching old home videos taken at Christmases gone by. Whether it\u2019s footage from just a few years ago or even many decades past, there is nothing more wonderful than showing the kids and grandkids Christmas celebrations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.video2dvdtransfers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}