Before digital media, recording fans had to rely on less flattering formats, such as degradable magnetic tape or yelling into a box and immediately closing it. Celebrate modern technology with today's Groupon: for $35, you get $75 worth of digitization services at Envision Video Services in Hasbrouck Heights.

Envision Video Services saves recorded relics from the dustbin of multimedia history with its media digitization services. Envision's ambience archivists crack open the contents of a range of outdated films and formats, including VHS, Betamax, and Hi8 tape, preserving contents on future-friendly DVDs and CDs. Rediscover heaps of home movies with video digitization, freeing memories of birthdays, holidays, and Mr. Belvedere tributes from captivity within antiquated storage systems (single tape conversions start at $19.95). Older self-cinematographers can unspool rusty reels with Envision's film digitization, allowing new generations to peek into historical family vacations or discover full-color proof of LBJ's secret life as a sideshow contortionist (starting at $49.90, plus $0.16 per foot).

In addition to reviving moribund motion pictures, Envision brings still images and audio back to the world of the eyes and ears. Slide and snapshot conversion renders photo albums into shareable digital formats (starting at $0.95 per image), and audio-tape digitization converts tape contents to CDs, letting amateur recordists share bedroom throat-singing recitals with the rest of the listening world (starting at $19.95).