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Convert PAL to NTSC
Digitally relive your old home movies and photos online, where they're securely stored, instantly accessible and ready to share.
1 item = 1 reel, 1 tape, or pack of 25 photos
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What's the Legacybox Difference?
Simply The Best Way To Preserve Your Past
The most important thing you can do for your family, in three easy steps.
Simply The Best Way To Preserve Your Past (Mobile)
The most important thing you can do for your family, in three easy steps. (Mobile)
What's Included
We'll send everything you need to safely pack and send your recorded moments.
We send you a box to fill with your home movies, photos, and film.
Simply pack with your items, use filler material as needed. Keeps your analog media safe in the mail.
This box is great as a keepsake and storage for your analog media once it's been digitized.
The Welcome Guide is a step-by-step guide for how to safely pack up and send in your items.
Includes a final checklist to make sure your Legacybox is ready to send.
Answers frequently asked questions.
Barcodes ensure your analog media is properly tracked throughout the digitizing process. These will be scanned up to a dozen times!
You'll get 2, 10, 20, or 40 prepaid barcodes depending on what digitizing service you select.
We'll send extra barcodes in case you'd like to add items to your order.
Every Legacybox kit includes a pre-paid return UPS® mailing label for you to use when sending us your analog media.
Simply place the UPS® shipping label on the outside of your box and send!
Conveniently drop your packed Legacybox off at any UPS location.
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$1,000 Loss GuaranteeExclusive, industry-first coverage backed by UPS Capital for the super-rare occurrence of package loss during shipping.
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Additional 30-Day On-Site BackupA digital copy of your new thumb drives and DVDs are kept on-site while in transit to your home.
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10-Day Guaranteed DigitizingNow available on all Legacybox sizes, this rush digitizing time option is unmatched, and the best way to get your media converted by a deadline.
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Standard, Expedited, or 10-DayEvery Legacybox now comes with the option to select faster digitizing times. Standard is always free, with upgrades expedited or 10-day optional in checkout.
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$1,000 Loss GuaranteeExclusive, industry-first coverage backed by UPS Capital for the super-rare occurrence of package loss during shipping.
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Additional 30-Day On-Site BackupA digital copy of your new thumb drives and DVDs are kept on-site while in transit to your home.
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10-Day Guaranteed DigitizingNow available on all Legacybox sizes, this rush digitizing time option is unmatched, and the best way to get your media converted by a deadline.
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Standard, Expedited, or 10-DayEvery Legacybox now comes with the option to select faster digitizing times. Standard is always free, with upgrades expedited or 10-day optional in checkout.
Digitized, Future-Proof, & Ready To Relive™
Choose what you’ll get back. Popcorn optional.
Common Questions
Mix and match format types from VHS tapes to Super8 film.
No worries! We'd love to help digitize ALL the media in your collection. We include extra safety item barcodes with every Legacybox in case you have more media you'd like digitized. If you do send in more items, we'll simply invoice you for these items once we check in your order at our processing facility.
Digitizing your analog media by hand is more of an art than a science, so while we can estimate processing times, it varies depending on your order's size and the type of media you send in, in addition to current demand. At this time, Standard Processing takes around 10-12 weeks. We also offer expedited options at checkout if you need your order back faster.
Every order includes regular status updates throughout the process in addition to access to a personal concierge to answer all your questions.
You'll receive your original memories plus digitized, future-proof, ready to relive digital copies on your choice of a Thumb drive, DVD or Digital Download. All analog media is carefully converted by hand, right here in the United States.
Thumb Drive
SanDisk Ultra® Dual Drive Luxe
Digital Download
Digital Download
WD My Passport™ HDD
All your original media
What's the Legacybox Difference?
PAL to NTSC Conversion
Can't we all just get along?
You know those arguments where it feels like neither of you are speaking the same language? Three slammed doors, one stubbed toe and a flying vase later, you realize you wanted essentially the same thing when your neighbor finally says it through the wall?
Putting a PAL tape in your American VCR or DVD player can produce the same teeth-grinding hair-pulling frustration. The tape LOOKED normal! The DVD was the same size as always! Why didn’t it work? What does it take for Tom Cruise to slide across my TV screen in his underwear? GAH! It turns out your tape and your player both work fine. Tom Cruise and his underwear were held at bay by two different international formatting standards that just don’t see eye-to-eye. Converting PAL to NTSC can fix that.
While we talk a lot around her about different video formats that need to be converted to DVD and digital (VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Video8, Digital8, MiniDV, MicroMV Betamax, U-matic), PAL is not a video tape format, but a standardized viewing format decided on before the tape is ever made. PAL (which stands for Phase Altering Line) is the viewing standard used overseas. Most video tapes from the UK, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia use PAL, in which 25 frames are transmitted each second. Each frame is made up of 625 individual scan lines. By way of comparison, NTSC (National Television System Committee) is the frame rate and resolution standard used in North America and most of South America, in which 30 frames are transmitted each second. Each frame is made up of 525 individual scan lines. Although VHS tapes are physically the same throughout the World, the way the information is stored varies. Most American VCRs will not work with PAL, or what they call Region 2, videos. They work instead with Region 1 videos (NTSC).
Maybe you purchased VHS tapes or equipment overseas. Maybe you received videotapes from family who live outside the country. The good news is, their tapes were never broken, you just didn’t have the key to unlock the memories stored inside of them. Now you do. If you’ve got PAL video that needs to be transferred to NTSC to watch, our studio technicians can help, without losing any of the footage or quality. Our transfer experts walk every tape you send us through our rigorous process by hand frame by frame, using the same processes employed by the Academy of Motion Pictures. We transfer all PAL VHS tapes to NTSC and convert the tapes to thumb drive, digital delivery through Legacybox Cloud™ or DVD for your files. We are reuniting people with their captured memories every day. Every hair in your head will remain intact, no toes will be stubbed, no vases hurt.