VHS & DVD Digitisation: The Service Your Neighbours Don't Know They Need
Families are losing childhood memories because VHS players have vanished. Offer to convert old tapes to digital before it's too late.
VHS, camcorder tape and DVD digitisation is a craft service with low start-up costs and clear customer value. The principle is straightforward: using a video capture device and a computer, you convert an analogue or physical recording into a digital file (MP4, MOV) that the customer receives on USB or via cloud transfer. The keys to success are reliability, protecting entrusted material and the ability to handle multiple formats โ VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, MiniDV, DVD, Super8 cine film. Growth is slow at first; early customers mainly come through word of mouth, and processing a single tape takes real-time playback plus post-production.
VHS players stopped being manufactured years ago and most households threw them out long since. Old tapes of christenings, school proms and a child's first steps sit in loft boxes with no way to play them โ and every year the magnetic layer deteriorates further.
๐Analogue media is physically decaying
The magnetic layer on VHS tapes degrades over time and can become unreadable after years in storage. Customers don't realise this until they try to play a tape โ by which point it is often too late.
