Why Does My Cassette Tape Sound Slow?
With cassette tapes making a little reunion tour onto music store shelves and into audiophile’s hearts, it’s the perfect time to dig out your old cassette tape stash … that...
How Do I Know if My VHS Is Damaged?
After visiting family and sifting through our old VHS collection, we found some Hollywood hits and also some old family favorites. The boxes? Cardboard. The VHS tapes? Here and there!...
How to Clean and Remove Mold from Your Old Film Reels
If you’re preparing to send in your old 8mm film reels to Legacybox for digitization and have noticed white or green flecks on your films, we have some bad news:...
Why Do Print Images Fade?
Don't Say Goodbye to Your Memories Pictures are worth 1,000 words, but what about a blurred out and faded photo? Is it more like 326 words? What kind of decreased...
What Does PAL Stand For?
PAL might be the most friendly-named video-encoding format of all. It just reads like something pleasant, doesn’t it? “Let’s go grab our PAL and watch a movie tonight!” See? Fun!...
Can Damaged VHS Tapes Be Restored?
We understand how important your home movies are, trust us. I mean, your home movies are the closest things to the past! You can rewatch your family reunion, see videos...
How Long Do Reel-to-Reel Tapes Last?
It feels like eons ago, but at one time, reel-to-reel (or R2R) tape was the pinnacle of audio engineering – the earliest form of magnetic tape used for audio recording....
What is a MicroMV?
Technology has an interesting sense of humor. During film’s ascent to become one of the most popular industries in the world, we witnessed technology slowly but surely catching up...
Can Tapes Be Recycled?
If you’re asking yourself whether your crop of old video and audio tapes can be recycled, then it sounds like you’ve already made the smart choice to have them digitized....
6 Best Formats to Convert VHS to Digital
You’re doing it! You’re taking the step to convert your precious home movies stuck on clunky VHS tapes to digital. What a sigh of relief. Those memories are precious, sacred,...
What Type of Film Do I Have?
If you’ve been in the business of recording home videos for a while, there’s a pretty decent chance you have a box in one of your closets filled with film....
Do I Have to Rewind My Tapes Before Digitization?
We get this question a lot. The simple answer – no, you don’t. But why stop there when you could read 344 more words on the history of rewinding videotapes?...
The Ultimate Spring Cleaning Checklist
2020 has thrown all of us for a loop and now many of us are staying at home the majority of the time. You’ve probably been stuck inside for weeks...