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If you've ever tried using your computer to scan a boxful of old photos, you know how tedious a task that is.Still, digitizing photos, home movies, audio recordings and even old VHS tapes is critical for families and businesses alike. Using our proprietary processes for quick, high quality scanning, our archival services provide four vital services you need to keep those memories for a long time.
Video Photo Albums
Great for weddings, anniversaries, memorials, or any cavalcade of pictures, the VPA is a great way to make snapshots exciting. NOW AVAILABLE IN HIGH DEFINITION! Your photos are preserved as a standard DVD and as digital still images you can view or reprint from any computer.
Home Movie Film Transfer
Dust off those old reels of movie film and put them on DVD! It's easy and available Advent Media! 8mm, Super-8mm, and 16mm (sound or silent). We transfer in-house, so your precious films are not shipped to another service provider.
Home Video Transfers
You know that home movies on VHS won't last forever, right? Archive them to DVD.*
Audio Recording Transfers
What to do with those reels of audio tape with voices of family and friends? Transfer them to CD or even MP3 for your iPod™, MP3 Player or Cell Phone. We can even transfer old phongraph records (including 78s).*
Home movies, home video and VPA stills can be combined into an edited DVD as well. Inquire for details. (HD movie/video transfers not available - unless source video is HD.)
*Recordings must be either of your original work, in the public domain, or transferred for personal use only. Recordings with active copyright may not be sold or distributed by any means, including file sharing.
IMPORTANT: Digital transfers are not guaranteed to last forever. Hard disks can mechanically fail. The dye layer on writable optical media (DVD/CD/BluRay) can fade over time. Flash memory can be wiped with an errant static charge. Optical or magnetic media should be recopied to fresh disks about every 5 years, or until truly archival writable media is developed. Only "manufactured" optical media which does not use pigment dyes can be considered archival, but the manufacturing process is only cost effective when making 1000 or more copies. There are also no guarantees any disk or file format will be supported in the future. If a new format is introduced, transfer of digital files to the most recent format is encouraged. Always retain original film masters after digital transfer! Unless the dyes are already fading, with proper storage they will likely outlast digital media.