The average video tape is 15 years old and has a resolution of 240 horizontal lines. Today, the average Standard Definition (SD) TV has over 500 lines of resolution while a High Definition (HD) TVs have 1080 lines of resolution. 

If you have a high resolution SD or HD TV and have tried to play a 15 year old video tape then you are already aware of the issue with transferring you video tape to DVD without any improvement. The TV has to "blow up" the 240 line resolution image from the video tape without any quality improvement. This is like taking a 4x6 photo and blowing it up to a poster size of 16x24. It will look very grainy (see below). Simply transferring video tapes without improvement is unacceptable. You wont be happy at all when you play your DVD on your SD or HD TV.

                  
                4x6 photo                    16X24 Poster of the same photo

This is why we've created our Hollywood Restoration technology. Except for a Hollywood movie studio, you wont find any other company offering an improvement on your video tapes like our Gold process at any price*. In fact, we are the only company that improves the video quality at all.

Below, we are showing the different between the Silver process and our Gold process. What we are using below is video in average condition so you can get an honest idea of what to expect. The Silver process has no restoration so the DVD will look just like the Original Video.
 

The Gold Difference
Original Video	Scratch/Noise Elimination
Scratch/Noise Elimination: Over 90% of the video we see has noticeable video noise (graininess). In this case, we were able to remove more than 70% of the video noise. Note: The fixed video clip on the right has also had the exposure and color shift correction as well (explained below).
Original Video	Exposure Correction
Exposure Correction: In this example, the original video was most likely a little under exposed and as the video aged, it got darker as well. In this case, we were able to completely correct the exposure problem.
Original Video	Color Correction
Color Correction: Over 70% of the video we see has color shifting to some extent. As the video ages and the chemicals on the video break down, the image will typically shift toward red (as in this example), blue or yellow. In this case, we were able to totally correct the color shift.

We offer the best quality in the industry and offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee because we know you'll be pleased with our product. We get emails or phone calls from several customers every week that go out of their way to tell us how happy they are with their video tape transfer.
 

Silver
The Silver machine was developed in 2002 and offers great quality for the money. The DVD will look just like the original footage.

Step 1: Capture: Each video frame is captured individually to produce an accurate representation of the video on the tape.

Step 2: Create Media: After the capture is done, the video is sitting on our hard drive in a fully uncompressed high resolution master. We then can write this video out to various formats including DVD, MiniDV, Digital8 and Mpeg.

Step 3: Ship: All the original video tapes are returned along with your new digital media. We ship all packages by 2-3 day air with tracking. You will be notified by email of the shipment along with the tracking information.

Gold
The Gold machine with our Hollywood Restoration technology was developed in 2002-2003 and was just introduced in 2004. This technology delivers stunning results similar to the million dollar restoration tools the film studios use. Now, you can have similar improvements made to your old video tapes*.  This technology is the only frame by frame correction system today that significantly improves the common problems with old video tapes (scratch/noise, exposure and color shifting).

Step 1: Capture: Each video frame is captured individually to produce an accurate representation of the video on the tape.

Step 2: Scratch/Noise Elimination: Scratches and video noise normally appear on old video tapes from playing the tapes and the breakdown of the video tape chemicals over the decades. The program uses 2 frames before and 2 frames after to reconstruct the current frame without the scratch/noise.

Step 3: Exposure/Color Fix: Over time, the video turns dark and may have a blue, red or yellow haze over each frame due to color shifting. The exposure correction will take dark (underexposed) areas and lighten them and take light (overexposed) areas and darken them. The color correction will remove this haze and enhance the colors of the objects in the frame.

Step 4: Create Media: After the restoration was done, the video is sitting on our hard drive in a fully uncompressed high resolution master. We then can write this video out to various formats including DVD, MiniDV, Digital8 and Mpeg files.

Step 5: Ship: All the original video is returned along with your new digital media. We ship all packages by 2-3 day air with tracking. You will be notified by email of the shipment along with the tracking information.

*Quality of restoration is dependent upon condition of existing videotape; severely deteriorated original materials may be beyond the reach of even the most sophisticated restoration methods.