Audio & Video Tapes

Video tapes and cassette tapes have a shorter shelf life than most media. By the time you dust off video tapes that have been sitting on shelves unwatched for years or discover groovy tunes that bring back fond memories of your youth, they may have incurred some damage. The good news is that if you promptly convert tapes to digital, this prevents further loss of visual and/or audio quality. You can try to digitize tapes at home if you have the right equipment in working order and a lot of patience. For videos, you’ll need that relic from yesteryear known as a VHS player, and for cassettes, a boom box, tape deck, or Sony Walkman is required. 

At ScanDigital, we have rescued thousands of movie and music memories by transferring them to digital formats at our state-of-the-art lab in the USA. When our technicians digitize video tapes, they use sophisticated software to analyze the video and remove any blank footage. 

We also try to repair damaged video cassettes without charging extra. You’ll be delighted when you watch digital files with better quality than the originals. Likewise, we use a state-of-the-art deck to digitize cassette tapes to capture the audio on both sides from beginning to end. This includes noise removal, normalizing, and equalization, so your tunes will likely sound better than you remember, with no need to fast forward or rewind.

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