RetroVision Tech · Model RVT‑3.0 · NTSC & PAL

Digitizer Pro

VHS to MP4. No computer.

Digitizer Pro kit: wood-grain digitizer with color screen playing a 1995 home video, plus remote, RCA and S-Video cables, USB drive, power adapter and box.

Digitizer Pro is a standalone capture deck for everything analog still sitting in your closet — VHS, Hi8, camcorder tapes, LaserDisc, and retro consoles. Plug it in, insert a USB drive, press record. Your footage saves straight to MP4 in real time. Nothing to install, nothing to subscribe to, and no mailing your only copy to a stranger.

Buy Digitizer Pro — $257

Free US shipping · 2‑year warranty · US‑based support

What is Digitizer Pro

Your closet’s last chance

Magnetic tape does not age gracefully. The binder that holds the oxide to the film gives up, color drifts toward magenta, and the VCRs that can still play the thing get harder to find every year. The tapes are not waiting for you — they are running out.

A T‑120 cassette holds two hours at standard play. A shoebox of twenty‑four is a long weekend. Digitizer Pro records them the way they were recorded: in real time, one press of a button at a time, on a device that does nothing else.

Why not a capture card

Capture cards need a computer, drivers, and software that decides it needs an update the night you finally sit down to do this. Digitizer Pro has a screen, a record button, and a USB port. The whole workflow fits on the coffee table next to the VCR.

And unlike a mail‑in service, your tapes never leave the house. The file lands on your own drive. Nothing uploads, nothing gets indexed, and nothing sits behind someone else’s subscription.

Every input your shoebox needs

Rear panel of Digitizer Pro showing, left to right: AUX in and out, HDMI out, S-Video in, AV in with red, white and yellow RCA jacks, and a USB-C power port.
Aux in / out
3.5 mm. Narrate over the footage as it records, or capture a cassette deck or turntable.
HDMI out
Upscale your old footage onto any modern TV, or feed OBS Studio to stream retro gameplay.
S‑Video in
The cleaner analog path. Use it whenever your deck offers it.
AV in (RCA)
Red, white, yellow — the connection every VCR, camcorder and console already has.
Power
USB‑C, 5 V / 1 A.

Four steps, start to finish

01

Connect

Run RCA or S‑Video from your VCR, camcorder or console into AV IN. Premium cables are in the box, so the signal does not start out compromised.

02

Insert a drive

Any USB drive up to 256 GB, formatted FAT32 or exFAT. One comes with the unit, so you can start on the day it arrives.

03

Press record

Capture runs in real time to MP4 while you watch it on the built‑in screen. The auto‑stop timer ends the session when the tape does, so a forgotten machine does not eat the drive.

04

Pull it and watch

Take the drive to a phone, tablet, TV, Mac or PC. Standard MP4 files, on hardware you own, playable without an account.

You never record blind

Digitizer Pro at an angle, showing the built-in color screen, directional pad, red REC/STOP button and front USB port.

A screen, a D‑pad, and a red button

Most capture gear asks you to trust that something is happening. Digitizer Pro puts the picture right on the unit, so you catch a bad connection or a mistracking tape in the first ten seconds instead of two hours later.

Everything runs from the on‑device buttons or the included remote — useful when the digitizer is sitting on the TV stand and you are on the couch.

What it will take

If it outputs RCA or S‑Video, Digitizer Pro will record it — in either NTSC or PAL.

VHS & VCR

Home movies, recorded broadcasts, wedding tapes, the ones with no label at all.

Hi8 & camcorders

Play back through the camcorder’s own AV out and record straight across.

LaserDisc & DVD

Discs you own and can no longer easily play on anything in the house.

Retro consoles

NES, SNES, Genesis, PlayStation, Xbox, Atari, Dreamcast — capture or stream via OBS.

Cassette & vinyl

Feed a tape deck or turntable through the audio inputs and save the audio.

Phones & computers

Finished files work on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac and PC with no extra software.

Your memories. Your tapes.

The reason to do this is not storage. It is that someone in your family is on those tapes at an age no one remembers anymore, and right now that footage exists in exactly one place, on a format that is actively degrading.

Digitize it once and it becomes something you can text to your sister, put on the TV at Thanksgiving, and keep a second copy of in a drawer.

Start with the first tape →

A family watching their old home videos together on the living room TV.

Specifications

Records to
MP4 on a USB drive, up to 256 GB (FAT32 or exFAT)
Video in
AV / RCA composite, S‑Video
Video out
HDMI, upscaled for modern displays
Audio in
RCA stereo, 3.5 mm microphone for voiceover
Broadcast formats
NTSC and PAL
Power
USB‑C, 5 V / 1 A
Controls
On‑device buttons, IR remote, auto‑stop timer
Plays back on
iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, PC
Warranty
2 years, with US‑based support

In the box

Digitizer ProPremium AV cablesUSB / USB‑C drivePower adapterRemote controlUser manual

Free with every order: Digitize Everything. Regret Nothing.

A ten‑chapter digitizing field guide by Kadie Tapes — identifying what is actually on your unlabeled tapes, cleaning a VCR that has been in a garage, getting the best picture your source can give, and avoiding the traps of mail‑in transfer services. Emailed to you after checkout.

Start with the shoebox

In stock and shipping now from our US warehouse. You get tracking the day your unit leaves.

Buy Digitizer Pro — $257
Free US shipping2‑year warrantyUS‑based supportFree field guide included