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Reel to Reel Conversion: Transfer Reel to Reel to CD
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
What color My Passport HDD do you want?
What's the Legacybox Difference?
Professionally Digitized in the USA
Every videotape, film reel, and photo is hand-digitized by our professionally trained team.
Professionally Digitized in the USA
Every videotape, film reel, and photo is hand-digitized by our professionally trained team.
Trusted by over +1 Million
Legacybox is the world's largest and most trusted home movie and photo digitizer.
Trusted by over +1 Million
Legacybox is the world's largest and most trusted home movie and photo digitizer.
Real-Time Customized Digitizing Updates
Our exclusive tracking system sends email updates to you at every digitizing step.
Real-Time Customized Digitizing Updates
Our exclusive tracking system sends email updates to you at every digitizing step.
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)
1. Pack Your Memories
2. Digitized With Care
3. Relive, Laugh, Cry
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.
Secure Thumb drive
Easy Digital Download
Watchable DVD Set
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
Legacybox Cloud
Digital Download
WD My Passport™ HDD
All your original media
What's the Legacybox Difference?
Professionally Digitized in the USA
Every videotape, film reel, and photo is hand-digitized by our professionally trained team.
Trusted by over +1 Million
Legacybox is the world's largest and most trusted home movie and photo digitizer.
Real-Time Customized Digitizing Updates
Our exclusive tracking system sends email updates to you at every digitizing step.
Transfer Reel to Reel Tapes to Digital
Before cassette tapes, there were reel-to-reel audio tapes. Think of reel-to-reel audio tapes as giant audio cassette tapes, but with the protective cassettes removed. Doing anything with open reels was a lot more involved, from recording and playback to storage.
Reel-to-reel, or open-reel audiotape, was the earliest form of magnetic tape used for audio recording. The supply or feed reel containing the tape was mounted on a spindle, the end of the tape threaded through mechanical guides and tape head assembly, and attached to a take-up reel. The earliest reel-to-reel recorders used steel tape. Reel-to-reel tape was used in early tape drives for data storage on mainframe computers, videotape recorder (VTR) machines, and high-quality analog audio recorders. Inexpensive reel-to-reel tape recorders were widely used for voice recording in the home and in schools before the compact cassette gradually took over starting in the 1960s.
The advantages of reel-to-reel tape were that it allowed a performance to be recorded without the time limitations of a phonograph disc, and it permitted recordings to be fairly easily edited, by way of splicing.
Cassettes eventually displaced reel-to-reel recorders for consumer use, but in the music industry, reel-to-reel tape has never gone away. Recording to analog tape creates a warmer sound preferred by many musicians over other audio formats.
Do you have a reel-to-reel machine for playback? Over time the sound quality on those reels will deteriorate. It’s important to transfer the precious memories on your reels over to digital format as soon as possible. With Legacybox’s reel-to-reel transfer service, you can convert your tape to thumb drive, digital delivery through Legacybox Cloud™ or CD for easy upload to your computer. We at Legacybox are standing by and ready to help. We will not compress or down-convert your files, bringing those old recordings back to life for you and your family to enjoy.
