Envision Video Services

Envision Video Services Envision Video Services is an award-winning video production company. Our mission is to offer high quality video services at a competitive price.

We specialize in video production and media transfer services, including converting videotapes, film reels, photos, slides, and audio cassettes into digital formats. Too many people are unable to watch old family movies any longer due to outdated technology. This causes people to miss out on reminiscing and reliving their memories with family and friends. Envision Video Services offers convenient

film and video transfer services to allow everyone to finally be able to watch their old movies again; enabling them to pass the memories down to the next generation.

09/05/2025

Before Technicolor, most films were black and white. By the 1930s, Hollywood was dazzling audiences with rich, saturated colors.

Technicolor was a groundbreaking process that used multiple strips of film to capture and project vibrant images. It gave us classics like The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, forever changing how movies looked and felt.

More than just technology, Technicolor defined the golden age of cinema and set the stage for modern filmmaking.


09/03/2025

Before Edison’s phonograph, there was the phonautograph. The first machine to record sound.

Invented in 1857 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, it etched sound waves onto soot-covered paper, capturing voices and music for the first time in history.

Here’s the twist: the phonautograph could record sound… but it couldn’t play it back. It wasn’t until modern technology that those ghostly recordings were finally heard.

The phonautograph proved that sound could be captured, changing history forever.

09/02/2025

Ever try to play an old VHS and it squeals, sticks, or even sheds brown dust inside your VCR? That’s not just age.

It’s Sticky Shed Syndrome.

The binder that holds the magnetic particles on tape can absorb moisture and start breaking down, causing playback failure and permanent damage.

It’s one of the biggest threats to preserving home movies on tape. The good news? With the right care and digitization, those memories can still be saved.

08/21/2025

On this Throwback Thursday, Bob recounts an embarrassing memory from 8th grade that is forever immortalized in print.


08/20/2025

Ever heard of the Tefifon? In postwar Germany, this quirky machine played music from endless plastic tape loops (like a hybrid between a vinyl record and an 8-track).

Each tape could hold hours of music, but the format never caught on outside of Europe. With vinyl and cassettes dominating, Tefifon faded into obscurity.

It’s one of those fascinating detours in music history. A glimpse at what could have been.

08/19/2025

Remember Flexplay... the DVD that self-destructed after 48 hours? Circuit City bet big on it in the early 2000s… and it backfired.

At $7 a disc, consumers hated the price and the waste. Streaming was rising fast, and competitors like Best Buy were thriving. Circuit City doubled down on a gimmick instead of adapting and it became one more nail in their coffin.

Sometimes, it’s not one big mistake that sinks a company… it’s a thousand bad bets like Flexplay.


08/18/2025

One of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous photos isn’t what it seems. In the 1860s, photo manipulation was already alive and well — Lincoln’s head was pasted onto another politician’s body to make him look more presidential. Turns out, fake photos existed long before Photoshop.

08/15/2025

The Talkies: How One Movie Made Hollywood Speak!

In 1927, The Jazz Singer changed cinema forever. Using Warner Bros.’ groundbreaking Vitaphone system, it synchronized recorded sound with film; bringing voices, music and sound effects to the big screen for the first time in a commercially successful way.
Silent stars struggled, new voices rose, and the Golden Age of Hollywood was born.

Here’s how the talkies made movies impossible to imagine without sound.

08/15/2025

In this extended podcast clip, Bob and Ellen talk about Weapons, Analog footage in films, You Were Never Really Here, getting tonsils pulled and Blue Velvet.

08/13/2025

In 1997, Scottish post-rock legends Mogwai released their single Tracy in one of the strangest ways imaginable… as a hand-cranked music box.
A tiny metal cylinder, raised bumps, and a winding handle turned their song into a delicate, mechanical performance you could literally play yourself.

It wasn’t just music: it was art you could hold in your hands.

08/12/2025

This was the MicroMV. The smallest camcorder tape ever made—about 70% smaller than MiniDV. It used MPEG-2 compression, which let it shrink in size, but created a huge problem… editing was a nightmare. Most software wouldn’t even recognize it.


08/11/2025

Centuries before cinema, people were already gathering in dark rooms to watch images come to life. Meet the Magic Lantern, the 17th-century invention that turned storytelling into a visual spectacle, complete with ghosts, fairy tales, and science lessons. The real dawn of movie magic.


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224 Boulevard
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ
07604

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Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 2pm

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Envision Video Services is an international Award winning video production studio located in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ. Envision Video Services specializes in all areas of Video Production, from full scale corporate and event video production to digitizing old home movies and family films.

Too many people are unable to watch old family movies any longer due to outdated technology. This causes people to miss out on reminiscing and reliving their memories with family and friends. Envision Video Services offers convenient film and video transfer services to allow everyone to finally be able to watch their old movies again; enabling them to pass the memories down to the next generation.

Our mission is to offer high quality video services at a competitive price.

Under the direction of owner Peter Gallo, Envision’s team of video professionals provides a wide range of video services including: video production; video editing; video to DVD and digital file transfer; home movie transfer; 8mm, super 8 and 16mm film transfer; internet video; photo montages; video prints; green screen videography; DVD authoring; video duplication; and more.