PAL / NTSC Video Conversion

If you've moved to New Zealand, travelled, or been sent a video from family overseas, you may have hit a frustrating problem: the tape or file simply won't play here, or shows up as a scrambled, flickering mess. That's because different parts of the world use different video "standards" — New Zealand and Europe use PAL, while the United States and Japan use NTSC — and they aren't naturally compatible with each other.

We convert video between these standards so your footage plays properly on NZ televisions, computers and devices. Whether it's an American NTSC VHS of a family wedding, a Japanese camcorder tape, or a European PAL video that won't behave on your local player, we can transfer and convert it. Better still, we can deliver it as an MP4 file that plays on virtually anything, anywhere — so you never have to think about regions and standards again.

We handle overseas tapes and files with the same care as any other irreplaceable memory, and we're happy to talk it through if you're not sure what you've got. Based right here in Cambridge, with free local pickup across the Waikato — get a free quote and we'll sort it out. If your overseas footage is on camcorder tape, our VHS & camcorder digitising page lists the formats we accept.