Deciding to digitize your family’s collection of old tapes and films is a major step toward preserving your history. For many families, those boxes of VHS, 8mm, or MiniDV tapes have been sitting in closets for decades, slowly losing their magnetic integrity. When you...
For many families, the attic or the back of a closet holds a treasure chest of history. Inside small, yellowed boxes are 8mm and Super 8 film reels: silent witnesses to weddings, first steps, and long-gone summer vacations. But there is a silent threat to these...
For decades, the audio cassette was the soundtrack of our lives. They captured everything from top-40 radio countdowns and "mixed tapes" for high school sweethearts to much more precious cargo: the first words of a child, the final greeting from a...
For many of us, the audio cassette was the soundtrack of our lives. From the 1970s through the early 1990s, these compact plastic rectangles held everything from high school mixtapes and top-40 radio recordings to the much more precious sounds of a child’s first...
There is a unique magic to the sound of a reel-to-reel tape. For decades, the 1/4 inch magnetic tape was the gold standard for high-fidelity audio, used by professional recording studios, radio stations, and home enthusiasts alike. It captured the raw texture of a...
