Orlando VHS to Digital, Photo Scanning & Film | Forever Studios
By Heather F.
Our table at 1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208, Boca Raton. Every order starts with somebody going through the box by hand. Orlando customers get the same call, 170 miles away.
Does Forever Studios serve Orlando, Florida?
Yes. By mail, or the drive down if you would rather hand them over yourself. There is no drop-off counter in Orlando, no partner shop and no franchise, because every tape, reel, slide and photograph is digitized by our own staff in our own building. When it is the only copy your family has left, that is worth the extra step.
- The studio
- 1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208, Boca Raton. 170 miles from Orlando. One building, no partner shops.
- Getting it to us
- Prepaid insured kit, out the same day you call. About two days by USPS Priority.
- What it costs
- Per item, not per box. $12 a tape, $0.50 a photo, $0.75 a slide, $15 a film reel or cassette, $13 a disc, $35 a hand restoration.
- How long
- 3 to 4 weeks standard. Rush is +25% at five days, +100% next day.
- What comes back
- Your originals, insured at declared value, with the files on USB, DVD or digital delivery.
Not sure what you have? Describe the pile over the phone and we will tell you what is worth doing.
Call (561) 235-7808. A real person answers, Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5.
Where we actually are
170 miles away, and that is the whole point.
Plenty of companies will tell you they have a location in Orlando. We have one studio, in Boca Raton, and your media never leaves it.
What matters is not how close the drop-off is. It is how many buildings your originals pass through between leaving your house and coming home.
For us that number is one. For a mail-in warehouse, nobody will tell you.
Or bring it in yourself
1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Open Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5
Driving directions from Orlando170
miles, Orlando to our door
1
building your media ever enters
Logged by name on arrival. Checked three times by hand. Shipped back insured.
Call the studio
A real person answers.
Tell us what is in the box and we will get a prepaid insured kit out to your Orlando address the same day.
What Orlando sends us
Central Florida collections, mostly.
Since 2007 you start to recognize a city by what turns up in its boxes.
From $12 per tape
VHS and camcorder tape
Theme park trips, school recitals, UCF game days, holidays spanning decades. Attic heat is already working on them.
- VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, Hi8, MiniDV, Digital8, Betamax
- Frame capture, one tape at a time
- MP4 on USB, DVD or digital delivery
From $15 per cassette
Audio cassette and reel-to-reel
Sermons, choir performances and graduation speeches recorded by Central Florida churches and schools. Voices that exist nowhere else, on stock that loses fidelity every year.
- Studio transfer, both sides captured
- Hiss and noise reduction, MP3 and WAV
- Reel-to-reel quoted per reel
From $0.50 per photo
Photo scanning and restoration
Prints, albums, slides and negatives, including the pre-Disney Orlando that only survives in somebody's shoebox.
- 600 DPI archival scanning
- Color and contrast restoration by hand
- Every print size, originals returned protected
Published pricing, no estimate games
Ten tapes is $120. That is the whole quote.
No box fee, no bundle you have to fill, no per-order minimum. Call with a rough count from Orlando and we will price it before the kit goes out.
Everything we accept
If it holds a memory, we have seen it.
Bring us the formats nobody else will touch. We keep the decks running for machines that stopped being made decades ago.
VHS, VHS-C, S-VHS, S-VHS-C, Betamax, Hi8, Video8, Digital8, MiniDV, MicroMV, and 3/4 inch U-matic
8mm, Super 8 and 16mm reels, sound or silent, up to 400 feet, scanned frame by frame to true 4K
Loose prints from wallet size to 11x14, bound and self-adhesive albums, 35mm slides, Kodachrome, medium format, and color or black and white negatives
Compact cassette, microcassette, reel-to-reel, DAT, vinyl records, and 8-track
DVD, mini DVD, CD, Blu-ray, and legacy data discs recovered where the surface allows
Not sure what you have? Photograph the pile and call. Most people describing “old home movies” turn out to have two or three different formats in the same box, and each one needs a different machine.
Why Orlando collections do not wait well
Seventy-five percent humidity, most of the year.
This is not a scare tactic. It is the reason we tell Orlando callers not to leave it another season.
~75%
Average relative humidity in Orlando
85%+
Routine wet season readings
Central Florida humidity sits around 75 percent most of the year and pushes past 85 percent in summer. Garages, attics and storage units near International Drive, and the older properties in College Park, Thornton Park and Winter Park, were never built to hold magnetic tape or paper photographs.
Add the storms that have come through the region, Charley in 2004 and Ian in 2022 among them, and every year of delay costs real footage. Mold, binder breakdown and mechanical failure do not reverse.
Where they end up instead: a climate-controlled floor, not a garage in August.
Every year a tape waits in a Orlando closet is footage you do not get back. Start with a phone call, not a box.
(561) 235-7808How it works from Orlando
Four steps, no guesswork.
Step 1
Call and describe it
Tell us roughly what you have. We will tell you what is worth doing, what is not, and what it costs, before anything ships.
Step 2
The kit arrives
Prepaid and insured, sent to your Orlando address with padded inserts. Drop it at any shipping location, two days by USPS Priority.
Step 3
We log it by name
Everything is counted and recorded against your order the day it lands, so you get a real number before any work begins.
Step 4
It comes home
Checked three times by hand, then your originals return to Orlando insured alongside the finished files. Turnaround is 3 to 4 weeks.
If you are still comparing
The mail-in companies put this in their terms, not their ads.
We are not going to characterize them. These are their own published words.
“YOU RECOGNIZE THAT YOU MAY NOT RECEIVE YOUR MATERIALS BACK … BY PLACING AN ORDER, YOU ACCEPT THIS RISK.”
Legacybox Services Terms & Conditions. Capitalization theirs.
“…we may choose to compensate you for loss or damage; or we may decline, entirely, to issue a refund or provide any compensatory monies.”
Southtree Services Terms & Conditions.
“IMEMORIES MAXIMUM LIABILITY … WILL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF FEES ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO IMEMORIES FOR THE APPLICABLE SERVICE … FOR THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO WHEN ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION AROSE, OR $100, WHICHEVER IS LESS.”
iMemories Terms of Service. Capitalization theirs.
Legacybox, Southtree and Kodak Digitizing are the same company, AMB Media LLC, in the same Chattanooga building. For what it is worth, our own return shipment to Orlando is insured at declared value.
One building
Once it reaches us it stays here.
Never sub-contracted, never sent on.
Zachary Goldberg
Founder and Owner, on site in Boca Raton
We built Forever Studios because every family deserves to have their memories preserved the right way, by real people, with real equipment, under one roof. Orlando families trust us because the process is simple: request a kit, ship your collection, and let our team do the rest.
Orlando, Florida
The city your collection came from.
Orlando is known as the theme park capital of the world, but the families who actually live here have their own stories. Long before the parks arrived, households in College Park, Thornton Park and Winter Park were photographing citrus grove life and small-town Florida, and those collections are the oldest things in most Central Florida closets.
Lake Eola Park
The heart of downtown Orlando. A lakefront park with an illuminated fountain, swan boats, a farmers market and seasonal festivals, ringed by the city skyline.
Official site → Photo Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Harry P. Leu Gardens
Fifty acres of botanical gardens on the shore of Lake Rowena, built around the historic Leu House. One of the largest rose gardens in Florida, plus camellias and tropical plantings.
Official site → Photo Ebyabe, CC BY 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
Orlando Museum of Art
In Loch Haven Park, showing American art, African art and contemporary exhibitions. A cultural anchor for Central Florida since 1924.
Official site → Photo Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Hosmer Morse Museum
On Park Avenue in Winter Park, holding the most comprehensive collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work anywhere, including the chapel interior he built for the 1893 World's Fair.
Official site → Photo Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Church Street District
Orlando's original downtown, built around the old railroad depot. The historic buildings now hold restaurants, bars and live music venues in the center of the city.
Official site → Photo Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
ICON Park
A twenty acre complex on International Drive built around The Wheel, with restaurants, attractions and shopping in the middle of Orlando's tourist corridor.
Official site → Photo Kiran891, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Where our Orlando customers are
307K+
Population
1875
Incorporated
170 mi
To our studio
3 hours
Drive time
Or bring it yourself
Rather not mail it?
You are welcome to drive it down and hand it to us. Same studio, same people, 170 miles from Orlando.
1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208
Boca Raton, FL 33487
Open Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5
What Orlando-area customers say
Rated 4.9 from 3,937 verified reviews.
★★★★★
The films you worked with were 80 years old. I was very impressed with the sections of movies you were able to copy and enhance. My family couldn't believe how good they looked.
★★★★★
Received my link, very easy process. Shipping, status updates, app usage all were terrific. Even came through with a delivery right before Christmas. Was able to re-live memories with all my families over the holidays. Thank you Forever Studios
★★★★★
I've always hesitated to drop my valuable memories in a box and ship it off to parts unknown, but Forever Studios has made converting my old tapes easy. Five stars!
Frequently asked, Orlando
The questions Central Florida callers actually ask.
What do Orlando families usually send?
VHS is the top format, often family theme park visits, school events and holiday celebrations. We also see plenty of Hi8 and MiniDV from the 1990s and 2000s, 8mm film from earlier decades, and photo collections documenting life across Central Florida.
How do I get my media to you from Orlando?
Call and we send a prepaid kit with packaging, insurance and tracking included. Drop it at any shipping location in Orange County. USPS Priority Mail from Orlando reaches us in about two days. You are also welcome to drive it down, about 3 hours, but nobody has to.
Can you digitize tapes of family trips to Disney and Universal?
Yes. Theme park vacation tapes are among the most common recordings we get from Orlando families, from a first visit to Magic Kingdom to a Halloween Horror Nights trip. All of it comes back as high quality MP4.
I have 8mm film from the early days of Walt Disney World in the 1970s.
That is exactly the kind of film worth doing properly. Early park footage on 8mm or Super 8 is historically interesting as well as personal. We scan frame by frame at high resolution with proper color correction, and we handle vinegar syndrome and warping.
My family has tapes in Portuguese from before we moved to Orlando.
That is fine. Orange County is diverse enough that we regularly receive tapes in Portuguese, Spanish, Creole and other languages. We transfer the audio exactly as recorded, so your files sound identical to the originals.
What does it cost in total, including shipping from Orlando?
Shipping is included in the prepaid kit, both directions. The digitizing cost depends on what you send. Ten tapes at $12 each is $120. Estimates are free, so call with a rough count and we will give you a real number.
Preserving Florida's most important memories since 2007
Why families send it 170 miles.
One studio
Everything happens at 1000 Clint Moore Road. Never sub-contracted, never sent on to another facility.
Insured
Shipped back at declared value, or collect it from the studio yourself.
A+
BBB rating, with thousands of reviews across Reviews.io, Google, Facebook and Yelp.
3x checked
Every tape, reel and photo reviewed by the technician, the studio leader, and your project manager.
Talk to a real person right now
Tell us what is in the box.
We will tell you what it costs and what is worth doing, before anything ships. One call and we will get a kit out to you.
Ship it from Orlando
We send a prepaid kit and cover the shipping both ways. Logged on arrival, digitized in Boca Raton, returned to you insured at declared value.
Or bring it yourself
1000 Clint Moore Road, Suite 208, Boca Raton, FL 33487. Monday to Friday 9 to 6, Saturday 10 to 5.
Everything we do
Nearby locations
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