DVD & MiniDVD

We offer a full suite of solutions to convert and transfer your MiniDVD disks into currently compatible digital files for Mac, PC, AppleTV and SmartTV’s.

MiniDVDs, like their full-sized counterparts, is an optical disc based format. Though a completely functional storage medium for computer data, the MiniDVD was most commonly used for the recording and playback of video content.

The format came to consumers in the late 90s, appearing, often times, as bonus content (such as music videos) sold alongside music CD releases. But would find greater prominence in the advent of MiniDVD camcorders, which would allow consumers to record home videos and write the content directly from the camera onto a loaded disc. Understandably, DVD based video media was drawing consumers away from the tape-based options that were, mostly, offering inferior video quality.

MiniDVDs were manufactured in both single and dual layer. Each of which offered different storage capacity for video and computer data. Single layer discs would allow for up to 1 hours of recorded video, while the dual layer option would double that to a capacity to 2 hours.

Like standard DVDs, the MiniDVD would become largely obsolete in the eventual shift to a digital first society.