VHS to digital conversion service
Mail us your VHS tapes. We'll digitize and restore them so they look the way you remember.
Insured Shipping · Every Tape Quality-Checked · Family-Owned Business
From tape to digital in 3 steps
No labels or organizing required — just pack and ship.
Ship your tapes
We send a prepaid kit. Pack your tapes and mail them in, fully insured.
We digitize & restore
Professional capture on calibrated decks, then frame-by-frame restoration.
Download your memories
Get a secure link to your restored videos. We ship your originals back.
What you get
Every tape is digitized on calibrated decks and quality-checked before delivery. Pick the tier that fits your needs.
Digital transfer
From $20/tape
HD restoration
From $35/tape
Premium
From $50/tape
Your tapes won't last forever
Why VHS degrades over time — and why now is the time to act.
If you grew up in the '80s or '90s, your family probably recorded over everything. Birthday parties, school plays, that one vacation where your dad wouldn't put the camcorder down. Most of those tapes are still sitting in a closet or a box in the attic.
The problem is they're falling apart. VHS tape is just plastic coated in magnetic oxide, and that coating sheds over time, even if the tape never leaves the box. After about 15 or 20 years, colors start washing out, you get tracking lines across the picture, and the audio cuts in and out. Heat and humidity make it worse. Mold is even worse than that. Every year you put it off, you lose a little more.
You can try converting VHS tapes to digital yourself with a USB capture stick, but the picture quality usually isn't great. Consumer hardware drops frames, adds noise, and doesn't handle worn tapes well. It can actually damage them further. A professional VHS tape conversion service uses calibrated playback decks built to handle tapes in rough shape without chewing them up. After capture, we restore the footage frame by frame, cleaning up grain and correcting color that's shifted over the years. If you've been looking to convert VHS to digital, that's the difference between a muddy transfer and video that actually looks like you remember it.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about our VHS conversion service.
How long does VHS conversion take?
Most orders are completed within 2 to 3 weeks of receiving your tapes. Turnaround depends on the number of tapes and the service tier you choose. We'll send you a tracking link so you can follow the progress.
What condition do my tapes need to be in?
We can work with most tapes, even ones with mold, tracking issues, or minor physical damage. If a tape is too far gone to play safely, we'll let you know before attempting it so nothing gets damaged further.
Do you return my original tapes?
Yes, we always return your originals. Once your digital files are ready, we ship your tapes back fully insured at no extra cost.
What's the difference between Digital Transfer and HD Restoration?
Digital Transfer captures your tape as-is in its original quality. HD Restoration goes further — we upscale the resolution, reduce noise and grain, and correct color shift so the footage looks closer to how you remember it.