What we convert
Whatever's in that box in the wardrobe — VHS, camcorder tapes, cassettes or DVDs — we digitise it in our Collingwood studio and deliver it however suits your family. Post from anywhere in Australia.
That box of VHS tapes in the wardrobe is quietly running out of time.
A USB stick is the simplest way to hold decades of family video in the palm of your hand.
VHS-C was the compact tape inside those late-80s and 90s home camcorders — the same VHS recording, shrunk down so a camera could sit on your shoulder at every birthday and school concert.
S-VHS and HDV were the quality-conscious formats of their eras.
MiniDV arrived in the late 1990s and became the everyday camcorder tape for a generation of parents.
The 8mm family — Video8, its sharper cousin Hi8, and the later digital Digital8 — powered handheld family camcorders from the late 1980s through the 90s.
Betamax was Sony's home video format from 1975, and though it lost the format war to VHS by the late 1980s, plenty of families recorded their most precious moments on it before it faded away.
For a while, burning your videos to DVD felt like future-proofing them.
Some of the most precious recordings aren't video at all — a grandparent's voice, a first band, a message never meant to be lost.
A snapped, chewed or mouldy tape isn't always a lost cause.
Sometimes it's not a tape or two — it's the whole family archive: a cupboard full of VHS, camcorder tapes and cassettes spanning decades, in every format the household ever owned.
Once your tapes are digitised, the loveliest thing you can do is share them — and a private Family Gallery makes that effortless.
