![]() One of the best investments to help with video tape restoration are: A good, reliable VCR, a color correction unit, and a time-based corrector.Īt DVD Your Memories, we’ve often found that many VCRs from the 90s will play beat-up VHS tapes better than a brand new one from the store. This will end up saving you countless hours in post-editing to fix the same issues, so it pays to fix them the best you can prior to transferring. If you’re transferring the tapes yourself, the best idea is to try to fix as many problems as you can at the point of capture. Luckily, with a little bit of extra hardware and effort, it’s still possible to improve the quality of these old VHS tapes. Often times, the problems can be so bad that it can completely distract you from the actual video itself. These same problems will show up if you transfer the VHS to DVD or hard drive too, which can be difficult to clean up after the fact. Often they are suffering from color degradation, flickering, tracking issues and other detrimental problems that come with a video tape of old age. For the vast majority of VHS tapes, they simply don’t look as good as they did 20 years ago.
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