Do You Have Memory Insurance? Why Digitizing Your Media Is So Essential

QUICK REASONS TO DIGITIZE YOUR MEMORIES:

• Eliminate the risk of damage to items from floods, fire, and other unexpected disasters
• Insurance against losing priceless memories
• Protect your one of a kind mementos from deteriorating and fading
• Immediate access to your precious memories from your smartphone, computer, or tablet
• Easily share videos, and photos with your friends and family
• Free up space and clutter from your house
• Easily organize digital files
• Always know who is who in slides, photos, and negatives by using metadata!
• Eliminate the need for outdated equipment to enjoy old movie film, slides, videotapes and more
• Your family legacy will be protected and preserved for future generations!
  

“WHILE SOME INSURANCE POLICIES MIGHT COVER EMOTIONAL ITEMS TO A POINT, NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN TAKE THE PLACE OF THE LOSS OF YOUR FAMILY COLLECTION.”

Standard Insurance: Most of the people have insurance in one form or another, whether it’s for your car, health, rental, home, property, life, or anything else. Insurance serves to protect us in case something goes wrong while providing us complete peace of mind. Having homeowner’s insurance makes sure that in case there is ever a flood, fire, or another natural disaster, you will be compensated to make up for the loss or damages to your possessions. However, what would happen if you lost your most valuable memories?
We all have special personal items that we consider to be invaluable in terms of monetary value. For a lot of us, these unique keepsakes are in the form of captured memoirs and family history – the home videos of your children growing up, your grandparents wedding album, your 35mm slide collection from the 80s or the 16mm film reels you inherited from your parents that you have never even seen but know it contains an integral part of your family’s history.
These slides, photographs, VHS tapes, films, and audio cassettes are worth incalculable amounts more to you as compared to the money your insurance company will value the physical materials at. While some of the insurance policies might cover sentimental items, no amount of money can take the placeof the loss of your family memories.

“HARD COPY ORIGINALS NATURALLY DISAPPEAR AND DECAY WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME BECAUSE OF THEIR CHEMICAL MAKEUP”

Memories Fade: The quality of your negatives, photographs, video/audio tapes, slides, and film have been degrading since they were first captured and continue to deteriorate as you read this blog post! Hard copy originals naturally disappear and decay with the passage of time because of their chemical makeup. Degradation is similarly exacerbated because of the environment in which these items are usually stored. Factors such as humidity, temperature, dust, light, rodents, and insects can all lead to the loss of your captured memories. It’s just a matter of time before these keepsakes aren’t able to be enjoyed or even recalled across generations.

Digital Memory Protection: The only possible way to protect your valuable memories from the damaging effects of time and mother nature is negative scanning in Jackson, Mississippi. Once scanned and digitized, those negatives, slides, photos, and home movies will never have to be scanned and digitized again. You can make use of the local photo scanning service of www.scansouth.net. Consider it as your own personal memory insurance policy with terms that lasts longer!

Only in the past few years have we had the ability to photo scan in Jackson,Mississippi, and we are so lucky to have this amazing technology. However, what about all those photos we had developed into prints and camcorder videos we capture before the digital camera? Or before that – the negatives, slides, reel-to-reel audio or 16mm/8mm films? Perhaps some were passed on to us from our parents or grandparents.

LIKE US WITH OUR SMARTPHONES, OUR PREDECESSORS CAPTURED THESE MEMORIES FOR A LOT OF REASONS:

• Help them recall life events that may have otherwise been overlooked
• Experience the wide range of emotions when reliving those events
• Tell a story of what they did, experienced or accomplished
• Ensure they live on in the hearts and minds of their loved ones long after they are gone.
• Pass on their history to the next generations who wish to know where they came from
  
  

While hard copy photos, 8mm film, 35mm slides, etc. are historic items, they are helpless to loss and not convenient to view, access, or share. As the world grows smaller, your friends and family members can be anywhere in the world. Digitizing your media through Scan Photo Services in Jackson Mississippi allows you to share home movies and photos with the tap of a finger.
Whether you choose to take on a scanning project yourself or use a photo scanning service in Jackson, Mississippi, we are here to help with all of your scanning and digitization needs.