We’ve transferred over 250,000 hours of videotape – that’s over 29 years’ worth of memories!

As a family-owned business, ARS Video has been providing video transfer services for a long time—longer than most of our competitors. We have 3 generations working together to transfer VHS tapes to digital formats, among other digital conversion services!

Send us your most precious memories right now, and we’ll make a high-definition digital copy that will last for generations.

Why VHS Digitization is so Important

The average lifespan of a VHS tape is only about 20 to 30 years, meaning even the youngest VHS tapes still in existence are now in danger of falling apart. Many popular films that were once available in movie rental stores can now be found online or on streaming services, but your home recordings cannot be so easily replicated. If you have any important footage of a wedding, birthday, holiday, graduation, performance, sporting event, or any other cherished memories on VHS tape, now is the time to update those memories! These precious moments will be a tragedy to lose, so it is important to act while you have the time.

Transferring your old home movies to a digital medium is a task many contemplate when going through their storage shelves or units or when unpacking holiday items, but in some cases never get around to doing. The more time goes by, the more likely it is that these VHS tapes will be damaged or forgotten. VHS Digitization solves this problem.

$18.75-$25/hour of recorded family video

• The price includes a flash drive with upscaled High Definition (1920 x 1080P) MP4 files that will play on your PC and TV (every TV now has a USB port).

• Tape timing and an estimate are provided for your approval before processing begins.

• For tapes of at least 30 minutes, pay only for the actual hours of tape you have to transfer—no paying for blank tapes and we don’t include TV programs.

• All your transferred files are backed up on site for future copies.

• Even though they’re on their way out, DVD copies are still available for those who’d like a hard copy.

VHS stands for Video Home System which uses VHS Tapes that have been around since the early 1980s. The VHS Tapes are used in a VCR which stands for Video Cassette Recorder. The VCR records and plays back VHS and VHS-C tapes. Other videotape formats from the 1980s and 1990s are VHS-C, Reg 8, and Hi-8. Many tapes have family recordings in danger of being lost due to the wear and tear of time.

How Many Hours Of Memories Do I Have?

Videotapes are not typically full of footage, that is why we time out your tapes before providing an estimate for your approval. Full tapes hold the following:

For generations, camera owners have recorded their most valuable memories to relive later or share with those they love. People have loved being able to record the most important and memorable parts of their lives, from birth to graduation, through photography and videos.

There are many places to store these memories in photograph format, such as on the computer, on a thumb drive, or in the cloud, by simply scanning, uploading, and storing them. When it comes to video formats captured on VHS however, digitization of old videos becomes more difficult.

The analog format was never meant to last, and it has certainly degraded over time. You will want to salvage these home videos when possible, and we offer video tape transfer services to take the bulky VHS tapes out of your valuable storage space and return them to you in an easily stored digital format. Your broken tapes can be repaired, mold can be removed, and sticky shed tapes can be baked. Conversion from PAL is available in most formats.

Our primary goal is to keep your videos save and convert them to a modern format. Everything is returned to you.

How We Transfer VHS To Digital

We are a national company and receive shipments daily. Please have tracking on your package (we have never had a problem with tracking) and include your contact info so we can contact you when it arrives, a Packing Slip is provided here for your convenience. Please feel free to drop them off if you are in Northeast, Ohio.

Your price is based on how much you have recorded on your tapes with a 30-minute minimum per tape. We will time out each tape and provide you with an accurate estimate with a quantity discount for your approval before we begin. We do not charge for blank tapes, and we do not digitize copyrighted material such as TV shows. We can splice, repair damaged tapes and clean moldy tapes.

Each VHS, VHS-C, Reg8, and Hi-8 video tape is digitized to a high-definition (1920x1080P 29.97) MP4 file. Professional formats are digitized to 1920x1080P 59.94 MOV files for editing. Each file is named according to the label on the tape. DVDs and Blu-Ray discs can also be made.

When the USB Flash Drive is put into a TV (USB ports are standard on all TVs) or a computer you will see a list of all the videotapes and can navigate to what you want to watch. The files can be copied and uploaded to share with family and friends.

We back up everything on-site in case you need another copy in the future! An invoice is emailed to you and, once paid, the original tapes and the digital copy are returned.

All that is left is to sit down with family and friends, take a trip down memory lane, and enjoy the path you’ve taken to get where you are today!

Our Video Transfer Service Helps You Digitize

Many people today look to digitize VHS tapes, but this process cannot be done to high definition at home. Home digitization requires a range of products, from a functioning VHS player to cords that will connect it to your computer and specialty programs formulated for the conversion process.

The entire process will take not only the length of the entire video to play and record, but you will also need to spend the time to edit the video file to trim any excess dead time in the video. You will then need to export the film into an appropriate video file so that you can store it on your hard drive, flash drive, external drive, or in any cloud-based service.

Rather than spend the time and money to go through this entire digitization process, our team is prepared to help you transfer your memories to digital video so that you can trust that the conversion will be done at a professional level. This also means you can trust that the visual imperfections in the VHS–such as tracking issues or wobbly pictures–will be adjusted so that you are left with a final product that matches the memories you hold dear.

With ARS Video’s video transfer service, your order will be returned to you on a USB Flash Drive or DVD (one is included in the price) so that you can safely share it for years to come. The best gift you can give is the gift of memories!