The BBFC would like to give early notice to its customers in
announcing our intention to cease accepting VHS as a submission format
from 1st July 2007.
With VHS coming to its end in the marketplace, it is becoming
increasingly difficult for the BBFC to maintain the technical capacity
to deal with VHS submissions. Professional VHS equipment is now
obsolete. We need to concentrate the resources we have on being able to
continue to undertake comparisons on behalf of the enforcement agencies.
The Board started accepting DVD at the start of 2006. DVD now makes up
over a third of our submissions. Customers who submit on DVD
range from the largest, to our smaller customers who submit a handful
of works a year. If the same growth in DVD submissions continues
through to July 2007, VHS submissions will have virtually ended. In
announcing our intention at this early stage, those in the industry
still submitting on VHS can work towards beginning to submit their work
on DVD before the July 2007 deadline.
Should the deadline create a problem for any of our customers please email me.
Details were posted on the
Board's website when DVD submissions were first introduced. It contains
very important information on the technical requirements for making DVD
submissions to the BBFC.
Dave Barrett
Head of Process
dbarrett@bbfc.co.uk