Preserving family history, one tape at a time

Origins in Nihonbashi

Daily Pixel Box began in a small Nihonbashi office with a single VHS deck and a shared belief that too many family memories were quietly decaying in storage boxes across Tokyo. The first projects were small — a neighbor's wedding tapes, a coworker's box of slides — but the pattern was always the same: relief, then gratitude, once footage everyone assumed was lost turned out to still be recoverable.

Over fifteen years, that single deck grew into a full studio equipped to handle nearly every consumer tape and film format sold in Japan since the 1970s. What hasn't changed is the hands-on approach: every order is still inspected personally before a single frame is captured.

A process built around fragile, one-of-a-kind media

Because so much of what arrives at our studio cannot be replaced, our process leans toward caution at every stage rather than speed. Each of the four stages below happens for every order, regardless of size.

Intake & inspection

Every item is logged, numbered, and checked for damage before it goes anywhere near our equipment.

Careful capture

Tapes and film are digitized frame-by-frame on maintained, purpose-built equipment, not consumer shortcuts.

Review & organize

Files are checked for quality issues, then renamed and sorted into your family's own timeline.

Deliver & back up

Your archive is delivered exactly as requested, with a temporary backup kept in case anything needs resending.

Fifteen years, one studio, thousands of archives

From our studio at 2-20-11 Higashishinmachi, Itabashi-ku, we've digitized tens of thousands of photographs and thousands of videotapes for local Tokyo families, many of whom return years later with a new box discovered in a parent's closet. Every original is logged, handled with gloves, and returned exactly as it arrived — because the goal has never been just files, it's peace of mind.