Transfer VHS Tapes to DVD or Digital in CT

Preserve your Family video tapes from the 80’s before they have degraded to much to recover anything. Don’t wait any longer to do a tape transfer. These tapes are 30 years old and are degrading quickly. The best solution is to have our video transfer service convert your VHS, 8mm or mini dv tape to digital or DVD as soon as possible! Don’t panic, your tapes are probably still good or salvageable but they won’t last for long. Call me today so I can transfer your tapes to DVD or a flash drive. Converting them to DVD will preserve the memories for generations to come.

What will happen to my VHS or 8mm Tapes if I don’t Convert my Tapes to DVD?

Research has shown that Video Tape quality starts to degrade rapidly after 10 years even under ideal conditions. Our research has also shown that some quality is lost every-time your VHS tape or 8mm tape is played. This type of loss goes unnoticed until it's very obvious and too late. Remember those rented tapes? They were often very poor quality because they were played many times? Don't let this happen to you, transferring your VHS tapes and 8mm tapes or even mini dv tapes to DVD will give you peace of mind.

Why use Create my DVD Service to Convert or Transfer your Tapes?

Our Prices are low and our quality standards are very high. I have spent hours on end developing a low cost process for tape to DVD that passes my rigid standards.

VHS to DVD Conversion Service - or Digital mp4 Files on a Stick

Transfer your 8mm or VHS tape to DVD or digital Files to preserve your memories for Ever. We offer a range of services including the transfer of VHS Tape to DVD or to Digital MP4. The transfer cost to flash drive is included in the $15 charge for a 32GB flash drive. Transfer to a Hard drive or your own flash drive is available at a rate of $11 per 2 hours. For those who are unclear about the contents of their video tapes, we provide a service where the material is captured onto our computer systems. Customers can then book a session with our video editor to review and organize their materials, facilitating the creation of computer-generated DVDs. This editing service is charged at $30 per hour. Additionally, we can convert videos into editing files, which allows us to edit over the phone, for a fee of $30 per hour.

How We charge for Video Tape Conversion (VHS, 8mm, Mini-DV, VHS-C)

The conversion of tapes to digital or DVD's involves real-time capturing of video content; thus, the length of the video on the tape directly affects the duration required for capture. For instance, a six-hour tape will take six hours to capture. Pricing for the transfer service is based on the time required to transfer rather than the number of tapes.

However, we have made this very simple to calculate.
Video tapes that run 30 minutes or less are charged at flat fee of $15,
Video Tapes that run between 31 minutes and roughly 2 hours are charged at $25.
Video Tapes that exceed 2 hours 5 minutes, the Cost will be $25 plus $15 for each additional hour.

Transferring digital Camera’s or Video Camera’s to DVD.

Most cameras today have an SD card or Memory card to store recorded video. Remove the SD card or memory card and bring it to me to transfer your video to DVD. Please store the SD or memory card in the anti static case before dropping it off or shipping. Some camera’s have a built in hard drive or memory. The best solution is to bring me the entire camera and charger to I can transfer the camera to DVD.

Tape Pulled out , Damaged or Broken?

Don’t worry! This is fixable at a very small cost. We’ll fix your tape and give it a new case if needed. Then we’ll transfer it to DVD so your memories will be preserved for a lifetime.

We Transfer all tape formats below:

• Beta (First tapes for for recording video after 8mm film - could only record 1 hour at first)

• VHS Tapes (came out around same time as Beta but VHS allowed 2 hours recording and later 4-6 hours)

• VHS-C (Compact version of VHS, Usually played using a VHS adapter)

• 8mm Tape (These tapes were popular after VHS tapes. Slightly larger than a cassette tape)

• Hi 8, Hi8 Tape (Higher quality version of the 8mm tape)

• Digital8, D8 (Also know as D8 or Digital 8, Sony’s popular format after Hi8 tapes)

• Mini DV (Last generation of Digital tapes)

• CT, NY, NJ, MA are all within one hour of us for drop off and next day when shipping UPS using ground service

We transfer most memory cards to DVD:

• Send us the Camera if it has an internal drive
• SD Card
• Mini SD Card
• Compact-Flash I and II
• IBM Microdrive
• Smart Media
• Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, Magic-Gate Memory Stick
• MultiMedia Card
• Secure Digital
• xD-Picture card

We also convert 8mm film to Digital. Bring us both for a package deal.