Consumers package up the old media they want digitized — film reels and videotapes, photos, slides, negatives, audio record or cassettes — and send it to PeggyBank’s office on South 74th Street in Omaha. They have the option of picking their own postage, or purchasing for $19.99 a pre-paid shipping box, called a PeggyBox.
Before sending the media off for processing, customers can get a quote online by listing all of the media they’ve included.
A 50-foot reel of film, for example, runs $9.99, 200 feet is $39.99 and 400 feet costs $79.99. A videotape — VHS, Betamax, Video-8, Mini-DV, etc. — is $12.99 each, and photo scanning is 45 cents apiece, or 49 cents if you prefer higher-resolution files.
After PeggyBank gets the items, one of six full-time employees will catalog the media and e-mail the customer with an exact price. At that time, customers on a budget have the option of trimming back what gets digitized.
Using custom-made, retrofitted digitization equipment, scanners and editing software, PeggyBank runs the films and photos through their machines before technicians finish the product with digital color and quality edits.
Most orders will take about three weeks to be finished, depending on the type of media and the amount. The old media is then returned to the customer along with whatever new media forms they requested as well as access to their own PeggyVault: their video, image and audio files stored in a secure, personal online account. — Ross Boettcher
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