Convert Those VHS Tapes Before They Crumble to Dust

By Geoff Duncan
June 23, 2009

Millions of people recorded endless hours of home video to VHS tape...now Ion Audio wants to help convert those to digital before the cassettes crumble.

Sure, home video might be all the craze now, but it was also the rage back in the Dark Ages, when everyday folks would go around with camcorders loaded with (shudder) videotape and attempt to record important events in their lives for posterity. The systems might have been limited to simple play and record buttons, but sometimes the devices even worked!

The problem, of course, is that most people's VCRs have now slipped off their mortal coils and have journeyed to the electronics recycling center in the sky…and dozens, hundreds, even thousands of hours of memories are moldering and decaying on VHS tape that, lets face it, isn't going to last forever (if it's still playable at all). Peripheral maker Ion ...

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