South Bay - Silicon Valley - Santa Clara County, San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Saratoga, Campbell, Los Gatos, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills. We Serve: Peninsula - San Mateo County, Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Half Moon Bay, Hillsborough, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Pacifica, Portola Valley, Redwood City, Redwood Shores, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Mateo, South San Francisco and Woodside. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can Order Online and Ship Us your Project or Drop it off Locally. Sorry, but w e cannot clean tape nor can we transfer videotapes with mold. *Tape Cleaning and Mold: If you notice white flakes or specks scattered on the reels of tape through the clear plastic window – this is mold. If you think your tape(s) might need baking, please contact AV Workshop with inquiries at (650) 369-4366. *Please Note: Our tape baking service is currently limited and results may vary depending on the condition of the tape. Baking temporarily restores the video tape by driving the water molecules from the binder so that it can be quickly be transferred or digitized to a DVD or Hard Drive. We might be able to rescue your precious memories by baking the tape. In the event that your video tapes have expired and have developed sticky-shed syndrome, there is hope. Please do not let this happen to your tapes bring them into Audio Video Workshop before it’s too late! We are seeing more video tapes come through our shop with the sticky tape syndrome. Often the reels of the tape squeak or screech.
The signs of sticky tape are immediately obvious, for the tape will not play or rewind. Some types of binders are known to stop working overtime, due to the absorption of moisture (hydrolysis). This deterioration makes the tape useless. It is a result caused by deterioration from the binder (glue) in magnetic tape, which contain the iron oxide covering to its plastic carrier. Sticky tape often happens to video tape within 15-20 yrs. Sticky tape syndrome (sticky shed syndrome) can be included in the tape repair process (if needed). Not yet at least.We will try our best to repair your tape, if unsuccessful there will be NO CHARGE Our digitization magic can work wonders on your old analog media, but we don’t have a Hermoine to cast a “VHS reparo” spell. That’s why we’ll give you a credit to either send in another tape in its place or a refund for the un-digitized tape if our team can’t convert your broken one. We know how much digitizing your old memories means to you – to your family and friends. This is our way of informing you early on in the conversion process that we were, unfortunately, unable to convert your tape. Unfortunately, not all broken tapes are created equal – some tapes are too sliced beyond repair, some too eroded – so, if the tape is too damaged, it will receive a sticker to indicate they were unable to convert it.Ĭustomer notification: “Houston, we have a problem”Īlong with that sticker, your tape will receive a barcode that when scanned in our warehouse will generate a heads-up email to the customer. For the most part, as long as the actual magnetic tape is in decent condition, conversion can commence.
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Our team of professional preservationists know this and will do their best to repair any broken tape that is sent in. Yes, that was a bad VHS joke, you’re welcome.īasically, what we’re saying is that three decades of wear and tear can make digitizing VHS tapes difficult or not possible if they’re too damaged. What’s even crazier is that most of your VHS tapes are probably more like 20-30 years old, which means they’d probably be married with little VHS-C or MiniDV tapes as kids. If they were a person, they’d be dang near legal driving age. It’s crazy to think that VHS tapes lost the limelight nearly fifteen years ago.
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