Transfer Your Videotape While You Can
Transfer your videotape movies to durable DVD. Home format videotapes are not lasting as long as once thought. The tapes are damaged by humidity and moisture and the wrap layers of tape inside the shell stick together. Hi8 and 8mm long length tapes are especially susceptible to the problem. Also, the cameras needed to play back those tapes are fast becoming obsolete or unrepairable.
Highest Quality DVD Transfers
To preserve the highest picture quality, the maximum time we will put onto one DVD is 120 minutes. It is possible to put more onto one DVD, but the picture quality is noticably degraded by the higher compression of the video. If your material extends beyond 120 minutes, there will be a charge for the additional DVDs needed to hold your movies. We make direct transfers from videotape to DVD with a single DVD menu chapter for each tape. Fast-forward jump points are included at approximately 5-minute intervals so that you can advance through the DVD by pressing the Forward button on your DVD remote.
Sorry, but we cannot provide editing or "picking through a tape" to extract discontinuous parts of the tape. In general, only the whole tape, end to end, is transferred. However, if part of the tape is unused (such as, say, there is only 10 minutes of video on a 120-minute capacity tape), we only transfer and charge for the 10 minutes of actual material on the tape.
Non-profit and Museum Pricing
We offer special pricing for non-profits, schools, museums, libraries, etc. Please contact us if you have any questions or want to discuss how we can customize our service and pricing for your organization.
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First 2 hours or less
(Includes 1st DVD disc)
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$57 |
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Additional hours
(Pro-rated to nearest minute)
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$13 |
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Additional DVD
discs
(After first 2 hours)
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$6 |
