Betamax to DVD Transfer: Convert Beta to DVD

Transfer Beta Tapes to Digital                                            Save your old shows or movies to preserve your precious family memories. Betamax to thumb drive, digital delivery through Legacybox Cloud™ or DVD converter service is the last hope of salvaging your video past. Betamax (also known as Beta) was the analog home video recording format developed by Sony in the mid-1970s. Betamax videotapes are one inch thick, six inches wide and 3 ¾ inches tall. “Beta” describes the way signals were recorded to tape, and how it looked like the Greek letter beta (β) when it wound through the transport. They added “max” on the back end to suggest greatness. Then JVC created the smaller and longer VHS tapes to compete directly with Betamax. It was a brief dogfight, but VHS won the format war hands-down. That magnetic tape in both formats began to spoil and deteriorate 15 years after it was made. If you have Betamax tapes that haven’t yet been converted to a digital file format, you