VHS to DVD - Transferring your video tapes to DVD will make them last a lifetime. Magnetic media has a shelf life.  The sooner you transfer them, the sharper the quality.  Read more about VHS to DVD transfer.	Hi-8 to DVD - Many families still hang on to their 8mm or Hi8 tapes even though they don’t have the camcorder anymore. Read more about Hi8 to DVD transfer here.
Mini-DV to DVD - Mini DV cassettes record with digital technology and boast sharper video resolution.  However, the media itself is still magnetic and prone to degradation with time.  Read more...	Film to DVD - If you are holding on to film reels, they are probably 30 years or older.  We examine all film footage, repair sprocket and film damage, then clean it for optimal projection and capture results.  Read more...
Slide Scanning Services - Once you convert your 35mm slides to a digital image, you can view it on a DVD, print it, email it, add it to a video, but the best part, you can finally watch it again! Read more...	Hard Drive Transfer - More customers are requesting transferring to a hard drive so they can edit the raw video, add music clips to silent film, special effects.  Our hard drive transfer is a flat fee of $35.  Read more…

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When you transfer your home movies with us, you get back a beautiful gift-ready DVD. The DVD with a caption of your choice comes in a DVD case that has scenes from the video printed on the cover. For a large family home video collection, it is so helpful to be able to visually identify right away what’s on the video.

Our video transfer rates are one of the lowest in town: $25 for up to 2-hours of video. Think of Dad, would he prefer another tie, or a unique DVD home movie gift to relive those family memories? Our pricing includes everything from cleaning the tape or film, to a gift-ready DVD. Check out our VHS to DVD or Film to DVD pricing here.

Call us today to beat the holiday rush. We are open in the evenings. If you live in the Newton/Needham/Wellesley area, we even pick up at no extra charge.

Call us at 617 901 4564 or email us at videotransferboston@gmail.com Our 10% Off (your entire order) sale runs through Friday, October 31st.

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EARLIER THIS YEAR my father turned 80, and as part of the surprise party I put together a DVD from old family slides. The Kodachrome images had been in my attic for 21 years, but it had been far longer since I had spent any time with those women with very big hair (including my mother), the men with their sideburns and muttonchops (including my father), and the little boy with his buzz cut (my older brother).

The celebration was held at the country club in South Florida where my father plays golf and most of the guests were elderly. This meant that the revelers - and I use that term very loosely - wanted to eat at 6 p.m., which was fine. Many guests expressed their fear that I had taken my father’s life in my hands by making this a surprise party. As one of my father’s poker buddies remarked as we waited for him to arrive, “Your dad’s got a good ticker, but you really want 50 of us screaming surprise at him when he walks in the door?” Fortunately, he survived the festivities.

But I was unprepared for the wistfulness that would wash over him when he watched that DVD of old slides, the colors slightly faded, on the big-screen TV we had placed in the dining room. He stood there transfixed, oblivious to the guests, as earlier incarnations of his family - as well as his once-robust younger self - were paraded before him. There was his late wife and my mother, dead since 1995, in dresses with pointed collars and cuffed sleeves from the 1950s. There she was in the gold-sequined bathing suit in which she had lived one summer, her skin nearly the red of a lobster. And there were my brother and me in the costumes of Cub Scouts and Little Leaguers and then of rather suburbanized hippies. Our hair by the late 1960s and early 1970s was long, but clean. Our Nehru shirts were pressed.

Everything, of course, looked smaller to me. The houses in which I had grown up. The dogs. My gigantic second-grade peace medallion was really no bigger than a quarter.

As my father studied the images and listened to the Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. songs that formed the soundtrack, I put my arm around his shoulders. I commented on the litany of cars with fins and how people sure smoked a lot in those days. And then, as a slide passed with my father in a trench coat and wingtips, I joked about how adults of his generation always looked so much more grown-up than adults in mine. I pointed out that I was in my mid-40s and thus older than he was in the lion’s share of the slides, and yet he appeared more responsible. More respectable. Both he and my mother always looked like they knew what they were doing, as professionals and as parents.

I told him how I rarely have the slightest idea what I’m doing, how most of the time I’m winging it as a parent. I feel like I’m making it up as I go along.

We glimpsed a photo of my parents arm-in-arm on their way to a black-tie dinner, my father in a tux, my mother in a strapless gown that seemed to shadow her collarbone. They were in control. They were in charge. They could have been movie stars.

My father shook his head. “Appearances can be deceiving,” he confessed. “Trust me: We were faking it, too.”

Someday when she is grown, my teenage daughter will be looking at old photos of her family. She will smile at the clothes we’re wearing and she’ll wince at what we thought were bold fashion statements. When she gazes at her mother and me, will she suppose that we had known all along how to raise her? Or will she realize that somehow, like parents of all generations, we had just figured out how to fake it?

Chris Bohjalian is a guest columnist whose novels include “Midwives,” “The Double Bind,” and “Skeletons at the Feast.”

Article source: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/10/13/making_it_up_as_we_go_along/

If you are considering turning your old home movies or slides into a DVD, please contact us soon before the holiday rush kicks in full speed. Because our transfers are done in a lab using professional video transfer equipment, it takes 2 to 3 weeks to process them into a gift-ready DVD. Call us today at 617 901 4564 for all your video/film/slides transfer questions.

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In many ways, the loss we sense goes beyond money and property equity - it is a loss of the security that our wealth and assets provide. We trust what we can see. And when we see our assets lose 25%, 30%, 40%, it’s so easy to feel robbed. And a great deal poorer.

I would like to encourage you not to just see the plummeting indexes, but also to see the riches you have beyond stock indexes – your family and your loved ones. Watch an old home movie, linger on the crafts created by your little children that may now be grown, take time out and pour over the journal entries or scrapbook of your family – and be reminded once again how rich you really are. How blessed you are of the true riches that no stock market or poor regulatory policies can take away.

May your faith give you comfort and wisdom as you handle the financial struggles so many of us are experiencing these days. But don’t forget your true riches – your loved ones.

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Looking for a 50th anniversary gift for Mom and Dad? We are seeing more and more customers bring in their parents’ film reels to transfer to a DVD for their parents 50th anniversary gift. Film reels were very common in the 50’s and 60’s. Many parents at that time got into it to record videos of their young children. Fast forward to 2008, many of those same parents are hitting their 50th anniversary. Their children are bringing these film to us to transfer to a DVD that their parents can simply pop into a DVD player to enjoy. It’s a nice thought that while the parents started the videos, the children are giving them back to them as a priceless gift in the form of a keepsake DVD.

Not all parents are willing to let go of their precious film reels, even if they no longer own a film projector. A customer who dropped the film off yesterday said she had to ’steal’ them from the parents so they won’t be worried.

It’s smart to worry. These 8mm or 16mm film reels are fifty years old or older and you want to make sure that the transfer equipment you use will not damage them, if nothing else, as they are irreplaceable. At VideoTransferBoston, we start the film to DVD transfer process by cleaning the film reels with a non-chemical Kodak cleaner so remove the dust buildup, and to maximize the quality of the transfer.

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VHS and camcorder tapes degrade with time because they are made of magnetic tape. The tape could even end up being left blank with the passing of the years. Transferring your video tapes to DVD will make them last a lifetime. Plus, you can simply pop them into a DVD player and enjoy. Our VHS transfer pricing is very reasonable, and you’ll be very pleased with the quality.

Many of us don’t even own a VHS player, let alone an 8mm or 16mm film projector to play our old film reels. Converting film reel to DVD is complicated and time-taking process. The films are also very fragile and utmost care, in a clean lab environment, using professional equipment is essential for the highest quality transfer. Film reels come in many sizes. To estimate film transfer pricing, take a ruler and measure the diameter of the reel. Then look up our film pricing chart.

Most of our customers transfer to DVDs that they can simply pop into a player and enjoy right away. However, more and more of our customers are requesting to transfer to a hard drive as video editing software becomes simpler and simpler to use. Let us know what your preference is.

At Video Transfer Boston, you can be assured that your precious films and videos are being handled with utmost care, in a lab environment, using professional-grade equipment. Call us today for any questions on your film and video transfer: (617) 901 4564.

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Take 10% off your video or film transfer through April 28th, 2008.

Call us at (617) 901-4564 for any questions about video care, film or video transfer.

You guys did a fantastic job thank you so much for taking such good care of our families’ memories. I even have them in time to get them edited and cut for my mom for Mother’s Day. I know my order had special “issues” that were causing you guys headaches. I appreciate all of the one on one attention to my order. I have already recommended you to a few people and will to anyone I know looking to have their movies transferred. Thanks again!-Melissa, Utah

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