8mm, Hi8, Video8, and Digital8 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 8mm tape to digital service not only preserves the video, but also makes it easy to share these moments with friends & family.
8mm Tape to Digital
Converting 8mm tape 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.
8mm Tape to DVD: A Fool's Errand
8mm tape to DVD conversion will disappoint. A cumbersome DVD is almost as faulty as your original 8mm cassette tape! Heirloom transfers video from 8mm tapes directly to cloud storage. This means your digital video is backed up at multiple data centers, ensuring you'll never lose a file.
Convert 8mm Tape to Digital
Heirloom converts 8mm tapes to MP4 files at 720p, or High Definition (HD). This 1280x720 resolution is used by YouTube, Netflix, and other streaming services. As original 8mm tape resolution is limited, it’s a waste of resources to convert your tapes to a higher resolution.
Digitize 8mm Tapes
Our digitizing experts label each of your 8mm tapes with a unique tracking number. This number becomes the name of your digital video file. These files are immediately uploaded to your online Heirloom account, so you can monitor our exceptional quality at any time. This means no waiting to receive a returned DVD or flash drive before starting to add searchable descriptions to your files.
NTSC, PAL, and SECAM
Heirloom understands that your 8mm tape may have originated elsewhere. That's why why we convert 8mm 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.
8mm Tape Repair
Tape repair is free at Heirloom. We fix mangled or broken tapes hiding within 8mm cassettes. Our experts also don’t charge for replacing faulty cassette cartridges in order to play your 8mm tape. These “surgeries” are often successful, but we can make no guarantee to save every faulty tape, especialy those with "Sticky Shed" syndrome.
Transfer 8mm Tape to Digital
Our experts transfer 8mm tape to digital in real time, making a high quality “1-to-1” capture. This takes up to 2 hours 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 8mm tape to digital service performs no other editing of your video.
Credit for Blank 8mm Tapes
Heirloom charges a unit price for each 8mm 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 8mm tape we encounter.
