Cheryl-Lee Foulsham

Don’t throw out your old VHS tapes until you read this. With decluttering all the rage, you may be unearthing old VHS movie collections from the 80s, 90s, or earlier from your attic or the back of a closet.

Many reasons exist why people want to convert VHS to digital media, mainly because it is more easily accessible on today’s variety of devices.

Working with private family video tape orders to corporate and archival conversions of all formats of media from video, audio, image and text.

We are open for business whilst working in line with the Government and public health guidance on Covid-19.

I know it is only 1 day after Guy Fawkes but in 50 days Christmas will be here, so presents are a must to start thinking about around now.

Helping preserve your precious family memories and collating them into one single platform to enjoy!

Preservation archive transfer services for capturing content from professional broadcast tapes and converting to new digital formats can conver the following specifications:

We provide a leading Book Scanning Service in Oxfordshire and the UK. From a single book or a library our technicians can support all your orders.

Working with family video tapes, legacy broadcast tapes, musicians and band cds to historical archives and documents. No order too small or too large.

Christmas is fast approaching and for some of us it’s approaching far too fast.

Preserve your recorded moments digitally. Send in your ageing tapes, film, pictures, and audio recordings. You’ll receive new DVDs or digital copies with your originals, safely and simply. To preserve the content of your videotapes, digitising them is a must before they deteriorate.

Christmas does seem a while away but with only less than 11 weeks to go; and with Kidlington putting their lights up what seems rather early, we thought it also wise to encourage clients to think about Christmas presents to their loved ones.

Oxford Duplication can prepare all your U-matic tape transfers to DVD Quicktime, MPEG4, FFV1 and 10 Bit uncompressed digital files.

A little bit of historical knowledge, So what is recording?

The most common challenge in digitising moving image is the file sizes that result from the actual digitisation. The file sizes can be huge and with that comes the increased cost of storage and maintenance for long term preservation.

Cast your mind back to the dozens of VHS tapes lying in a box in your attic ranging from Disney classics to The Lion King. While those are not valuable, there are numerous VHS video tapes in existence that are worth quite a lot of money.

We are very privileged to have been asked to undertake a vast and somewhat disorganized order consisting of many thousands of medium format film, 120 film, 126 film, 35mm positive and 35mm negative slides to convert to digital images .

Magnetic tape damage is pretty common. Family tapes store video and audio information in the form of a magnetic strip. The VCR has special heads that can pick up on these magnetic signals and translate them into images and sound that plays on your TV.

Zip Disk & Floppy Disc Transfer to CD DVD USB or Cloud.

Safety Film vs Nitrate Film: Working with our client World History Archive, they commissioned us to prepare over a course of several years their archives of safety film. Currently we are several thousand in to a 24,000 order!

Working with clients to include libraries, museums, archivist collections, Royal Navy, Blenheim Palace, B4 Business, Colleges and University of Oxford we support companies with their extensive collections that need converting into digital formats.

I know we are only in November but it is 6 weeks until Xmas!

So what is this new term that is floating around and one that sits very comfortably with Oxford Digitisation Centre? In its simplest it means the conversion of analogue information into digital information.

With changes in search engines, content has become very important in getting people to your website. This brought our client to us to digitise a large batch of corporate CDs containing seminars and training talks that were prepared several years ago for online listening.

Future proof your digital business with our transcoding solutions. Transcoding of digital video files is important to ensure obsolete or outdated videos on your website are current and also give the best playback experience regardless of viewing device and connection speed.