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Video8 Digitisation Services

Video8 to DVD and Digital Conversion Services

Preserve your precious memories by converting your Video8 tapes to digital formats such as DVD, USB stick, or cloud album with EachMoment. Not only will transferring your Video8 tapes to digital allow you to declutter and free up tons of space around your home, but you'll also feel safe and secure knowing that your beloved memories will be protected for countless more years to come.

Conversion of Video8 to digital formats enables you to view your Video8 tapes on your computer, laptop, smartphone, or smart TV. This means the quality of your footage will remain intact, and you and your loved ones can take those memories with you wherever you go!

How We Convert Video8 to Digital

Our digitisation process is simple and secure:

  1. Place an Order: Choose an EachMoment Memory Box that suits your needs by selecting a size and an output format. If you're unsure which format you want, we have written a guide to help you.
  2. Receive Your Memory Box: The next working day, our specially designed, reinforced Memory Box arrives at your home.
  3. Pack Your Tapes: Fill the box with all your Video8 tapes and any other media you'd like to convert.
  4. Schedule Collection: Select a collection window through our online portal (you'll receive an email with a link once you've placed your order).
  5. Secure Courier Service: Our couriers collect your Memory Box, and it is tracked all the way to our digitisation lab. We use the most reliable couriers in the country to ensure your precious memories are always safe.
  6. Professional Cleaning: Our digitisation experts carefully unpack, assess, and hand-clean all your Video8 tapes. This is essential to ensure they run smoothly through our machines and provide you with the best quality digital video.
  7. High-Quality Digitisation: The tapes go through our broadcast-quality Video8 VCRs equipped with Time Base Correction technology, which corrects any syncing issues prior to digital formatting.
  8. Enhancement and Restoration: Once digitised, we use advanced software to restore and enhance picture and sound quality. Our experts aim to recreate your videos to modern standards.
  9. Choose Your Format: Your fully enhanced digital videos are then transferred to your chosen output format—DVD, USB stick, or cloud album.
  10. Return Delivery: Everything is repackaged and returned to your doorstep, ready for you to watch and relive those special moments.

Why Should You Convert Your Video8 Tapes to Digital?

The large number of Video8 tapes converted to digital and DVD every year by EachMoment highlights how popular Video8 tapes once were. Unfortunately, now the format is obsolete, it's doubtful that Video8 owners will have working equipment to play their tapes on. For many people, Video8 tapes are likely taking up space and collecting dust in a dark corner of the attic or a cupboard.

What's more, similar to other magnetic tapes such as VHS or Hi8—Video8's successor—the contents of your old tapes and your cherished memories could soon lose their sharpness or vanish entirely. Like Hi8 tapes, the footage stored on Video8 tapes can degrade by 20% over as little as 10 years. Converting your Video8 tapes to digital formats ensures your memories are preserved before it's too late.

The Best Way to Convert Video8 to Digital

Converting Video8 tapes to digital and DVD yourself can be a laborious and time-consuming process. Fiddling with expensive and often hard-to-find equipment is not how anyone wants to spend their free time. With EachMoment, we remove all the stress from converting your Video8 tapes to digital formats, making it easy to prevent time from taking its toll on your old tapes and endangering precious memories.

If you have any Video8 tapes, camcorder tapes, or any old formats like VHS that you'd like preserved on DVD or another digital format accessible on your smartphone, TV, or computer, we will collect your tapes from your doorstep, convert them to digital formats, and return them to you in one of our Memory Boxes.

Our Professional Equipment and Software

Domestic digitisation equipment is available to purchase online, including "cleaning tapes" and digital capture cards. However, you really get what you pay for when using cheap and outdated hardware. Such equipment is not perfect and is susceptible to mechanical faults that could damage your tapes beyond repair or lead to poor-quality digital files. Our customers often recall issues such as dropped frames, less vivid colours, and "overscan"—unsynchronised lines at the bottom of the frame—when converting Video8 tapes themselves.

At EachMoment, we use only broadcast-quality Video8 VCRs equipped with Time Base Correction (TBC) technology and service them regularly. We hand-clean your tapes rather than risk using cleaning tapes that could cause damage.

Our advanced post-processing software helps us make the best of your old footage. Our experts restore lost image quality, remove empty frames, and ensure the sound is clear and consistent using Digital Noise Reduction (DNR) technology. We aim to recreate your videos to modern standards, so you can enjoy them for years to come.

Get Digitising! Your Video8 Tapes Restored on DVD and Digital Formats

Whether you're looking to free up space in your home or hoping to restore your old media to its former glory, we can help. Every Memory Box order includes collection and delivery of all your old media—no need to separate it all; just choose a box big enough for everything. Get in touch if you need advice.

Why not consider using our digitisation service to give a heartfelt gift to a loved one? Our Luxury USB makes for a lovely keepsake, together with all your photos and videos in a Memory Box to spark shared memories between family and friends for a special occasion—anniversary, birthday, Father's Day, or Christmas.

A Brief History of Video8 Tapes

Introduced into a market already dominated by VHS and Betamax formats, Video8 cameras were among the first commercially successful camcorders. Widely admired by amateur filmmakers and television producers alike in the early to mid-1980s due to their much smaller tape size, Video8 offered a more portable solution for recording videos.

However, Video8 experienced the same demise as other 8mm tape formats and was eventually replaced due to the popularity of digital camcorders that use more compact storage media. Today, Video8 equipment is obsolete, making it difficult to access the memories stored on these tapes without professional conversion services.

Preserve Other Media Formats

At EachMoment, we don't just convert Video8 tapes. We also offer conversion services for a variety of media formats:

Explore our full range of services and let us help you preserve all your precious memories.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out. Our team of specialists is here to help you every step of the way.

Don't let your treasured memories fade away. Convert your Video8 tapes to digital formats with EachMoment and keep them alive for generations to come.

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