What is the Life of Your Video Tapes?

How do we apperceive how continued a video band will last? There are abounding factors that affect a tapes life: the superior of the band if new, how abounding times the band has been played, how abounding times it was recorded on and how the band has been stored will all accord to the lifespan of the tape.
To try and acknowledgment this catechism we can attending to the experts. Sony has declared that a tapes activity is abased aloft accumulator altitude and whilst the abounding acknowledgment is long, abstruse (and boring) the basis of what they say is that if a acceptable superior band has not been abracadabra and is kept at a abiding temperature after fluctuations in clamminess again the band will endure fifteen years after above problems.
So, will your recordings endure 15 years?
The botheration is that a lot of of us do not accept ideal temperature and clamminess controlled environments and fluctuations could cause the band to aggrandize and arrangement - this agency that the 15 year amount is unrealistic for the boilerplate tape.
The best you can do to bottle the adept tapes is accumulate them in a shoebox or added alembic (ideally airtight) aural a cuboard or abundance allowance area there are no abrupt changes in temperature - also, accumulate them abroad from any magnets (speakers, TV) or absolute calefaction sources like radiators!
How continued will my video tapes last?
Well, our acquaintance has apparent us that there are no simple answers here. We accept apparent tapes that are twenty 5 years old with a abundant picture; abominably we accept aswell apparent tapes that are alone a few years old with audio and video problems.
Simply put, If the band holds adored memories you artlessly accept to aback it up and the ultimate canning is to accomplish a agenda conversion. This can be stored on DVD and calmly backed up assimilate your computer to actualize added copies. This account can be agitated out by a video about-face specialist or you can try one of the abounding solutions to do this yourself at home.