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Find my advice, tips, and information to preserve your precious memories. Discover how to protect your old cassettes and optimise their transfer to digital.

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Find all my articles dedicated to video digitisation, the VHS, Video8, Hi8, Digital8, MiniDV, and MiniDVD formats, as well as the preservation of your memories.

Why Your Old Videotapes Are Quietly Disappearing (and How to Save Them)

Do you still remember the smell of the video rental store? The distinct sound of a VHS tape sliding into the VCR, and the manual rewinding of a movie? As a child of the 90s, I grew up with the VHS format. Those grainy images, warm colors, and charming tracking lines hold an unmistakable sense of nostalgia.