Deciding who you should trust with your home movies. 35mm slides and photos is a difficult decision.
Below is a checklist that should help you make a good decision. This is what I would look for before I trust my precious videos and film to any company:
1) Do they ship your precious memories out?
Many competitors ship your tapes and slides to cheaper labor outside the U.S. When you do business with an on-site lab, you get:
- Peace of Mind. Can you sleep at night wondering if your video tapes or 35mm slides & photos will reach its destination in some other part of the planet and make its way back safely to ARLINGTON?
- Quick Turnaround. Our standard turnaround is 3-5 days. Need it sooner? Talk to us, chances are we can make it happen.
- Face-to-face Customer Service. If you have questions before or after your order, we are right here in-person to help you.
2) Do they use professional equipment?
The results you get from professional dedicated transfer equipment is significantly different than what you get from hobbyist consumer equipment. In addition, professional lab equipment is conditioned routinely to produce optimal transfer quality. Do you really want to feed your fragile films or 35mm slides into unconditioned, maybe-even-dusty equipment that will ruin your media?
3) Will the finished product be “finished”
Know what the price includes. Do you get back just a blank-face DVD where you have to use a Sharpie pen to scribble your own label? With Video Transfer Boston, the price includes
- custom labeling on the DVD
- indestructible clam case (not the flimsy jewel case that breaks)
- 100% satisfaction guarantee
Call us today at (617) 332-3300 or email us at videotransferboston@gmail.com for a free consultation. Ask for Myrtha, 
I am the store manager and will be very happy to answer your questions. If you live in the Greater Boston area, we will pick up your reels and video tapes for free for orders $200 or more. You receive a archival-quality DVD that you can watch on your DVD player or computer and a web video version you can email to friends and family.
8 responses so far ↓
1 jeannine may // Apr 24, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I have 29 miniDV tapes that I would like to have transferred, as they are, and eventually edit them in the future.
They are precious to me since my mom recently passed away and my father is terminally ill.
What is your recommendation? Should I have them transferred to hardrive, DVD? Which one is easier to edit? Pricing for this number of tapes?
I live in Brookline MA
Thank you
Jeannine
2 admin // Jun 6, 2008 at 2:29 pm
For your editing purpose, no question about it, transfer to hard drive, not DVD. When you convert to hard drive, you get .AVI files, 1 hour is about 12 Gig. When you transfer to DVD, you get .MPEG2 format, 1 hour is only one tenth of that, so you can imagine the data you have lost. It’s still great for viewing, but if you plan to edit, definitely the Hard Drive.
3 Steve // Aug 6, 2008 at 9:33 am
I am trying to call you to obtain services. However, when I call number on your web site- a pleasant voice states- “This is Myrtha”. What number should I call?
4 Andrew Warner // Sep 7, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Hi Myrtha,
You did some work for me on the 8mm tapes and that went great. My grandmother was also wondering if you could take projector slide images and turn them int0 some updated digital picture form. Please email me when you get a chance. Thanks!
5 Jon // Oct 7, 2008 at 11:46 am
Hello,
I just have a few quesitons. How long will it take you to transfer 6-8 VHS tapes to a hard drive? How long will it take you to produce DVD’s for 6-8 VHS tapes. Lasty, if they were to be put onto a hard drive could I just bring in an external hard drive instead of the computer tower? Thanks.
-JK
6 admin // Oct 22, 2008 at 9:48 am
Dear Jon,
It takes 2 to 3 weeks for our lab to transfer your tapes to a hard drive. The DVDs are part of the process so there’s no additional time for the DVDs.
Yes, bring in an external hard drive. To estimate what size hard drive, use this rule of thumb: 1 hour video is around 15 Gig, so if you have 6 hours of video, that’s about 90 Gig.
Myrtha
7 charla // May 10, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Do you still exist? Phone is not answered and email gets returned. I have s few 8mm reels that I am not sure have footage on them. Can you tell me before I pay to convert to DVD?
8 Stephen Ratcliff // Jun 24, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I submitted some 8mm film for transfer earlier this. I gave the dvds to my grandparents as a gift. They are finally able to see them and they noticed that there are a couple of problems. On on of the movies there are actually two movies on top of each other playing simultaneously. I am not sure how this occurred during your production. Can you let me know how we can correct this.
Thanks,
Stephen Ratcliff, 409-502-0607
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