VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, Video8, Hi8, Digital8 and Mini DVD transferred, cleaned up, and handed back ready to watch on any phone, TV or laptop. Free pickup in The Beaches, and anywhere in Toronto from 5 tapes.
This is what's sitting in your basement.
The first tape I ever played had my girlfriend's grandfather talking off camera. I never got to meet him. It is the only place I have heard his voice.
That is why I do this.
Pedro
Same few seconds, three ways
Real footage off my own family's tapes. Pick a tape and put it in the deck: the same few seconds play on all three TVs at once. Straight off the tape, Restored, and an Enhanced clip. Judge it with your own eyes.
Press ► to play. Pick another tape to swap it. No sound, about ten seconds each.
Priced per tape, up to two hours of footage, then $9 an hour after that. So you only pay for what is actually on there, and blank tapes cost you nothing.
THE HONEST TRANSFER
The right choice if you mostly want the tapes safe and watchable before they degrade any further.
EVERYTHING IN ESSENTIAL, PLUS THE CLEAN UP
VHS, 8mm and discs each wear out in their own way, so every tape is looked at first and gets the treatment that suits it. On most family footage it is the difference between watching something old and watching something that happened.
worth it ♥Detail rebuilt on the moments you choose, in HD. Best on close-ups: faces, hair, knitwear.
Restored cleans up what is already on the tape. Enhanced goes further and rebuilds fine detail that cleaning alone cannot recover.
It is made with enhancement software, the kind people call AI, on my own computer, so your footage never leaves my bench. On small faces far from the camera it can guess wrong, so I check every clip against the original, and anything that does not look like the person you remember never leaves my bench. You always get the untouched version too.
It is the slowest thing I do, so it is priced by how much of the tape you want it on. Pick the moments that are worth it, or take the whole tape and skip choosing.
Your files on a labelled drive, in a proper box. Good for Christmas, better for a parent who does not trust the cloud. One drive is included with every order of 5 tapes or more. Extra drives, for brothers and sisters or for a bigger order, are $20 each.
Got a drive of your own? Bring it and I will put your files on it, at no cost.
Snapped tape, cracked shell, chewed by a VCR in 1998. Send me a photo and I will tell you honestly whether it can be saved, what it would cost, and what the risk is, before anything gets opened. Some tapes I will turn away rather than gamble with your only copy.
Build your order
Pick what you want, add it to the order, and keep going until your shoebox is empty. Two Essential here, one Restored with the whole tape Enhanced there. Nothing is emailed or saved unless you press send at the end.
Per tape. You do not need to know the minutes. Tell me which moments matter and I will find them, or pick the whole tape and stop counting.
Estimate only. Tapes over two hours add $9 an hour. Pickup is free in The Beaches, and in the rest of Toronto from 5 tapes (under 5: $15). Blank or unwatchable tapes are free, you never pay for footage of a carpet. Final price once I have seen them.
Honest answers
Pick a tape. Every answer is one I have actually been asked.
Nothing is charged and nothing is booked yet. I will write you back.
Your order is in my inbox. I read everything myself and I will write back, usually the same day.
Your connection dropped it. Nothing is lost, send it one of these ways instead:
One press and it is sent. Your details go to me and nobody else, and I only use them to answer you.
No order needed. Ask about a format I have not listed, a tape you are worried about, or anything else.
Your question is in my inbox. I read everything myself and I will write back, usually the same day.
Your connection dropped it. Nothing is lost, send it one of these ways instead:
One press and it is sent. Your details go to me and nobody else, and I only use them to answer you.