Serving Matamata
Tape, Film & Slide Digitising for Matamata
From Matamata it's a pleasant 35-minute run across to Cambridge — and worth the trip to have your family's tapes, film and slides handled personally rather than posted away.
Matamata families have generations of history on formats that no longer play — the projector's long gone, the VCR died years ago, and the slides haven't been in a carousel since the 80s. Meanwhile the film keeps fading and the tapes keep degrading, quietly, in the back of a cupboard.
Sound Lounge in Cambridge digitises the lot: home movies on VHS and camcorder tape, 8mm and Super 8 reels, slide collections numbering in the thousands, and the cassette with a voice you'd love to hear again. It's all done in-house by Dane Clarke — 30-plus years in professional television, including the BBC — so your originals never leave the studio, and you deal with the same person from first phone call to final handover.
Many Matamata customers combine the drop-off with a Cambridge trip they were making anyway, and tracked courier is an option if you'd rather not drive — our free pickup service covers the Cambridge area itself. Either way, it starts with a free, honest assessment of what you've got.
Three simple steps
1. Free assessment
Ring or message with a rough idea of your collection — get a straight answer on price and timeframe before deciding anything.
2. Get it to us
Drop off at the Cambridge studio (35 min from Matamata) or send it by tracked courier — whichever suits you best.
3. Old memories, new life
Files on USB, DVD or free online download — easy to share with the rest of the family, wherever they are.
Formats we transfer
Perfect before a family reunion
A lot of digitising jobs happen just before a milestone — an 80th birthday, a golden wedding, a reunion at the old farm. Digitised films and slides make the best surprise of the night, and once they're files, every branch of the family can keep a copy. If you've got a date coming up, tell us — we'll be straight about what's doable in time.
Delivery options
Google Drive download — Free
USB stick (32GB) — From $30
DVD — $15