I Have 100+ Videotapes to Digitize—Should I Send Them All at Once?

by keithbv | Aug 14, 2026 | Choosing & Using A Transfer Service

LARGE VIDEO TRANSFER PROJECTS I Have 100+ Videotapes to Digitize—Should I Send Them All at Once? If you need to digitize 100 videotapes or more, deciding whether to send the entire collection at once can feel like a surprisingly big decision. A collection of 100, 200,...

Do I Need to Organize and Label Every Tape Before Sending It for Transfer?

by keithbv | Aug 14, 2026 | Choosing & Using A Transfer Service

ORGANIZING OLD VIDEO TAPES Do I Need to Organize and Label Every Tape Before Sending It for Transfer? No. You do not need to spend days identifying every birthday, vacation, school event, and mystery cassette before sending old tapes for digitization. A little...

I Found a Box of Old Camcorder Tapes—What Do I Do First?

by keithbv | Aug 14, 2026 | Video Transfer Basics

FOUND OLD CAMCORDER TAPES? I Found a Box of Old Camcorder Tapes—What Do I Do First? Finding a box of old camcorder tapes can be exciting and slightly overwhelming. The cassettes may be labeled, unlabeled, mixed together, partially damaged, or from several different...

MiniDV vs. Digital8: What’s the Difference—and Which Has Better Quality?

by keithbv | Aug 14, 2026 | Tape Formats & Technology

DIGITAL CAMCORDER TAPE FORMATS MiniDV vs. Digital8: What’s the Difference—and Which Has Better Quality? MiniDV and Digital8 look completely different, but the recordings inside can be much more similar than many people realize. Both formats were used for digital...

How Do You Convert MiniDV to Digital—and Why Is FireWire/i.LINK Still Important?

by keithbv | Aug 14, 2026 | Tape Formats & Technology

MINIDV TRANSFER & DIGITAL PRESERVATION How Do You Convert MiniDV to Digital—and Why Is FireWire/i.LINK Still Important? MiniDV presents an unusual situation in the world of old videotapes: the video recorded on the tape is already digital. The challenge is getting...