What Do I Have?
Found old tapes, film, records, or discs? Click the picture that looks most like yours to learn what it is — and how to preserve it.
📼 Video Tapes
Plastic cassettes with reels of tape inside. Home movies usually live here.
📼 VHS
The world's most popular home video format (1976–2008). About the size of a paperback book.
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📼 VHS-C
Compact VHS tapes used in camcorders. Looks like a mini VHS — often found with a VHS-size adapter.
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📼 Betamax
Sony's rival to VHS from the late 1970s. Slightly smaller than VHS, with one big reel window.
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📹 Video8 / Hi8 / Digital8
Palm-sized 8mm camcorder tapes. All three use the same shell — check the printed logo: "Video8," "Hi8," or "Digital8/D8."
💡 Holding a bare reel of film with no plastic shell? That's 8mm film — see Movie Film below.
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📼 MiniDV
Digital camcorder tape used from the late 1990s. The smallest video tape — about the size of a matchbox.
Identify & digitize →🎞 Movie Film
Open reels of film with tiny sprocket holes — no plastic cassette shell.
🎙 Audio
Music, voice memos, interviews, and answering-machine tapes.
🎵 Compact Cassette
Standard audio cassette for music and voice recordings. The classic mixtape format.
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🎙 Microcassette
Small voice-recording tapes used for dictation, interviews, and answering machines. Smaller than a credit card.
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🎼 Vinyl Record
Analog records for music and spoken recordings. Flat black discs, usually 7 or 12 inches across.
Identify & digitize →💿 Discs
Shiny discs — some bare, some inside a protective cartridge.
💿 DVD
Optical disc used for home movies and video storage. Home-burned DVDs often have handwritten labels.
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📀 LaserDisc
Large optical video disc popular before DVD. The size of a vinyl record, but shiny like a giant CD.
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💽 MiniDisc
Digital audio stored inside a small protective cartridge. Square, colorful, about 2.8 inches wide.
Identify & digitize →Not sure? You don't have to be.
Whatever you found in that box, the odds are good it's one of the formats above — and most of them can be digitized at home, no computer needed, with the RVT Digitizer 3.0.
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