VHS tapes are filled with priceless memories, but what happens when they start to degrade? Over time, mold can take over your old tapes, leaving you wondering if those moments can ever be retrieved. If you're facing this issue, don’t wait—rescue your precious footage before it’s lost forever. The sooner you act, the better chance you have of saving those cherished memories.
VHS to Digital
When mold takes over your VHS tapes, it starts to break down the magnetic particles that store your video content. This means that each day, your tapes are degrading further, and the memories recorded on them are at risk of being destroyed. Most digitizing companies won’t even attempt to recover footage from moldy tapes. But at Heirloom, we believe in doing everything possible to preserve your memories.
The footage Heirloom saves is invaluable. Our proprietary process allows us to clean and digitize moldy tapes. Heirloom has a phenominal success rate, but some fuziness in the digitized video may occur, especially near the start of the tape where it was most exposed to the elements. The sooner you convert VHS to digital, the better the chances of a full recovery.
Preserving Priceless
The reality is, waiting too long can mean the permanent loss of your priceless memories. Mold damage spreads quickly, and the more it degrades your VHS tapes, the harder it becomes to recover video content.
Don’t take the risk of waiting. Send in any camcorder tapes today, to include the compact VHS-C cassettes. Act now to avoid the heartbreak of losing family moments, weddings, graduations, and special occasions to mold forever.
Insurance Claim
Did you know that some customers have filed successful homeowners and renters insurance claims to cover the cost of digitizing their moldy VHS tapes? In cases where a leaky pipe or basement flooding contributed to the mold growth, insurance companies may reimburse the cost of tape restoration as part of the damage claim.
Safe Forever on the Cloud
Once your VHS tapes are digitized, Heirloom ensures your memories are preserved safely and securely on a redundant cloud system. This means your videos are backed up in multiple locations, ensuring they are never lost, and are always accessible when you need them.
We offer the first year of unlimited cloud storage for free, giving you ample time to enjoy, stream, and share your digitized content with family and friends. After the first year, our annual cloud storage plans are comparable to services like Google and Apple, but with a crucial difference: you’re not locked into anything.
You're the owner of these digital files, and can download your content to any device, without having to pay an annual subscription. This flexibility ensures your memories remain in your control, forever safe, and always accessible. You can also buy an optional USB flash drive with a copy of all your files.
Get an Heirloom Box!
It’s easy to get started saving your moldy VHS tapes. Order an Heirloom box with everything included, and no hidden charges. The box covers the cost of 3-way shipping, meaning the return of your tapes is already guaranteed. The Heirloom box saves you over 60% on retail shipping costs—plus, no more standing in long lines at the post office!
Choose the box size that fits what you want to digitize:
- Small Box: Holds up to 10 large VHS tapes
- Medium Box: Holds up to 39 tapes
- Large Box: Holds up to 97 tapes
Upon receipt at Heirloom, you simply pay an itemized invoice to save each VHS cassettesent for digitization. There's no extra charge to clean the mold, or make any minor repairs to your tape. Heirloom’s experts work their magic to save your memories for a lifetime.
Blank VHS Tapes
With so few working VCRs and camcorders, it's difficult to know if your VHS tapes are worth trying to save. At Heirloom, we're here to help. We'll issue a transferrable Heirloom digital gift card for any blank video tape we discover during the digitization process, even if it took us eight hours of playbook to confirm the blank tape.
Drop Off at the UPS Store
We've partnered with UPS to make it easy to ship your moldy VHS tapes. Drop off your Heirloom package at your nearest UPS Store, and you're set! No more guessing about shipping costs or worrying about where your precious memories are. The partnership ensures that your media is safely tracked from your hands to ours—and back again.
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