Mini DV Tape to Digital

Miniature digital video (MiniDV) tapes were never designed to last. Over time, environmental elements deteriorate the tape inside the cassette, causing a loss of quality. Within decades, your cherished memories will be permanently damaged. Using a VHS to digital service not only preserves the video, but also makes it easy to share these moments with friends & family.

MiniDV Tapes to Digital

Converting MiniDV tapes to digital allows you to watch videos on any device, including computers, mobile phones, and smart TVs. Saving the digital files to a USB flash drive is a stable solution. Even better, keep your digital files on the cloud, so you can share the streaming memories with anyone in the world

MiniDV to DVD: A Fool's Errand

VHS to DVD conversion will disappoint. A cumbersome DVD is almost as faulty as your original MiniDV tape! Heirloom transfers video from MiniDV tapes directly to cloud storage. This means your digital video is backed up at multiple data centers, ensuring you'll never lose a file.

MiniDV Tape Conversion

Heirloom converts MiniDV tapes to MP4 files at 720p, or High Definition (HD). This 1280x720 resolution is used by YouTube, Netflix, and other streaming services. As original MiniDV tape resolution is limited, it’s a waste of resources to convert your tapes to any higher resolution.

Digitize MiniDV

NTSC, PAL, and SECAM

Heirloom understands that your MiniDV tape may have originated elsewhere. That's why why we convert MiniDV tapes from all standards, not just the National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) format popular in North America. Your Phase Alternate Line (PAL) and Sequential Color and Memory (SECAM) formats are welcome at Heirloom.

MiniDV Tape Repair

Tape repair is free at Heirloom. We fix mangled or broken tapes hiding within MiniDV cassettes. Our experts also don’t charge for replacing faulty cassette cartridges in order to play your MiniDV tape. These “surgeries” are often successful, but we can make no guarantee to save every faulty tape, especialy those with "Sticky Shed" syndrome.

Transfer MiniDV to Digital

Our experts transfer MiniDV to digital in real time, making a high quality “1-to-1” capture. This could take an hour for each cassette, even if there's only a few minutes of video on the tape. Heirloom removes the blue "dead" space that's before and after that video signal. Because each customer has unique preferences for post-capture production, Heirloom’s MiniDV to digital service performs no other editing of your video. 

Credit for Blank MiniDV Tapes

Heirloom charges a unit price for each MiniDV tape received in your order. After hours of playing your cassettes, we may discover that some of your tapes are completely blank! It's Heirloom policy to issue you a transferable credit, that never expires, for each blank MiniDV tape we encounter.