May 29, 2026
Not long ago, a customer brought in a collection of old VHS and Mini DV tapes that had been sitting in a cupboard for years. They said they had always planned to watch them again one day, but life got busy, the VHS player stopped working, and the tapes were eventually forgotten. When the tapes...
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May 22, 2026
A Geelong family recently brought in a small box of old VHS tapes they had found while cleaning out their garage. The tapes were dusty, some were labelled, and some had nothing written on them at all. They told us they hadn’t watched them in over 20 years because their VHS player had stopped working...
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May 15, 2026
Many households in Warrnambool still have VHS and Mini DV tapes stored away, but not everyone realises how quickly these tapes can deteriorate. Understanding how these tapes work helps explain why digitising them is so important. VHS and Mini DV tapes are magnetic tape formats. They store video and audio information on a magnetic strip...
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May 4, 2026
It usually starts the same way for many families in Colac. Someone is cleaning out a cupboard, the garage, or a storage room and finds a box full of old VHS tapes and Mini DV camcorder tapes. The labels read things like “Christmas 2001,” “Family Holiday,” “Sarah’s Birthday,” or sometimes nothing at all. The tapes...
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