Memory Savers

New for 2023 -- Memory Savers Digitization Service. Don’t let your family memories fade away! If you've got a few (or a pile) of old VHS tapes with videos of your child's first steps, your grandma's 90th birthday, or even your crazy uncle's seventh wedding, don't let them fade away. Let me digitize them for you! We can digitize your VHS and VHS-C tapes and deliver Mp4 files on a flash drive. WHY YOU CAN TRUST ME: From 2012 through 2018, I co-managed a large-scale multi-million dollar digitization project aimed at preserving important historical materials (photos, letters, and videos) for libraries and museums across west Texas. This project concluded with over 44,000 individual items digitized and preserved, all of which are now available for public viewing on the The Portal to Texas History (https://texashistory.unt.edu/). We are professional and experienced, so you can trust me with your memories! Special Introductory Price: $10.00 per tape (valid through May 2023; $13.00 per tape after May 31, 2023). Please contact me at the link above to start preserving your memories. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS: 1. VHS tapes degrade over time. This is a fact. How long will they last? Like many other things in life, it depends. If you store them in a dark, dry, climate-controlled location (like a spare bedroom closet), they can last 20 and up to 30 years. If they've been stored in the loft of your barn, subject to summer heat and winter cold, and humidity fluctuations, they won't last nearly as long. 2. If the tape is playable (not broken or brittle), we can probably digitize it, but remember, the quality of the digitized video will only be as good as the quality of the VHS tape at the time of digitization. The older the VHS tape, the darker the image will likely be. Interestingly, even if the video portion has degraded, the audio portion is often as good as it was when you recorded it in the first place. 3. Speaking of brittle tapes, we take great care with your tapes, but if the tape itself is old and brittle and hasn't been played in years (or decades), it could break when we attempt to digitize it. Because we cannot control the quality or condition of the tape when we receive it, we cannot be responsible for any damage incurred as a result of the digitization process. 4. Based on all of the above, I always advise people to digitize your VHS tapes sooner rather than later. Every year will only acrue further degradation of the tape.