Fire or Heat Damaged Video Tape Repair Services
- The most important part of any videotape is the black magnetic material
- Videotape cassettes can endure a great deal of heat exposure before being damaged beyond repair, and even we are surprised from time to time to successfully restore a tape or a melted mass of many tapes lumped together that looked hopeless during the initial assessment. As long as the magnetic material did not reach its melting point there's a very high chance that the footage can be recovered.
- Each tape that has been exposed to fire or heat must be individually assessed
- Unfortunately there are still limits to what can be recoverable and if the mylar surface of a tape gets hot enough it will warp permanently, causing unavoidable interference during playback. That said, even if your cassette looks terrible we still recommend that you send it in; if it can't be repaired and restored there will not be any charge to you.
- $69.50 per tape repaired for fire or heat exposure damage
- VHS, S-VHS, VHS-C, miniDV, miniDV HD and Audio Cassette - anything and everything that's wrong with your tape is covered, please visit our FAQ page for details regarding the repair process for Video8, Hi8 and Digital8 tapes. Discount pricing is available.
- Discount pricing
- The repair process for tapes that have been exposed to fire or heat is slow and gentle in order to increase the chances that footage can be recovered; working with tapes in batches allows us to be more efficient. If you send in 5 - 9 fire-damaged tapes we can offer 10% off of the repairs and if you send in 10 tapes or more in a batch we can take 20% off of the repair costs. When you place an order you will see a prompt that will ask if you will be sending more than one tape and the discounted price will be reflected in the automated quote you receive.