Convert Your Digital8 Tapes to Digital Files.
Digital quality on a familiar little tape
Digital8 recorded clean digital video on the same 8mm-style cassette, bridging the camcorder era into the digital age around 2000. We transfer it to digital MP4 at roughly 12.5 GB per two-hour tape, monitored in real time, on equipment most people no longer own.
Get a Free Digital8 QuoteIn-house in Orange, CA since 2001. Over a million reels handled, never one lost.
$19.95
per two-hour tape (regularly $28.50). Any brand.
Since 2001
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What Digital8 Is
Introduced by Sony in 1999, Digital8 recorded digital video onto the same style of 8mm tape used by Video8 and Hi8. It gave families cleaner, more stable quality while keeping the familiar cassette.
Unlike analog Video8 and Hi8, Digital8 stores a digital signal, so a good transfer preserves a notably cleaner image.
Digital8 sat between the analog camcorder years and MiniDV, so these tapes often hold turn-of-the-millennium family footage.
The cassette is nearly identical to the analog 8mm formats. You do not need to tell them apart; we identify each by its recording.
Digital8 camcorders are now rare, leaving the tapes with no easy way to play at home.
Why Digitize Digital8 Now
Even though the signal is digital, it lives on magnetic tape that can shed, jam, and grow mold with age.
The specific Digital8 camcorders needed to read these tapes are increasingly hard to find in working order.
Digital8 often captured the late 90s and early 2000s, a stretch of family life worth pulling off tape.
You do not need a working camcorder. Send the tapes and we play and capture them on maintained equipment.
Digital8 Transfer Pricing
The same flat rate as Video8 and Hi8. Longer tapes count as multiple two-hour tapes.
Delivery on flash drive or hard drive, and optionally on DVD: $5 per disc for disc-only orders, $15 per disc when a drive is included. $50 order minimum. We skip blank footage and never charge for the empty parts of a tape.
Which Tape Do You Have?
Not sure what you are looking at? Match your tape below and tap it for the details, or just send a mixed box and we sort and identify them for you.
Consumer and Home Formats
Professional & Broadcast
Low-compression MP4 or MOV files delivered on flash drive, hard drive, the cloud, or long lasting archival DVD.Â
Why Our Digital8 Transfers Look Better
We capture cleanly so the stable, digital picture Digital8 recorded comes through without added compression artifacts.
A technician monitors each capture and tries troublesome tapes in multiple decks for the best result.
We trim blank footage and never charge for the empty parts of a tape.
Your tapes are digitized by our own team in Orange, California, never subcontracted or sent overseas.
How It Works
Getting your Digital8 tapes to us is simple, and your originals always come home.
Send it to us
Free local pickup across Southern California, a secure prepaid shipping kit by mail, or drop off at our Orange, CA counter.
We digitize it in-house
Each tape is captured in real time, tried in multiple decks if needed, and the blanks are trimmed.
You relive it
Get your videos as MP4 on a drive or DVD to share and stream, and your original tapes come back with them.
Digital8 Questions
How much does it cost?
Is Digital8 different from Video8 and Hi8?
How do I know if I have Digital8?
Can you convert sticky or moldy Digital8 tapes?
How do I get my videos back?
Can you combine my Digital8 with other tapes and media on one drive?
How long does it take?
Do you have a minimum order?
Have Other Tapes Too?
Digital Quality Still Needs Rescuing From Tape.
Get a free, itemized quote. We count every tape, tell you the exact cost, and your originals always come home.
Get My Free Digital8 QuoteOr call (888) 405-2685 · Orange, CA · In-house since 2001