How many of you still have a VCR in your home? Office? How many of you have a
DVD player in your home? Office?
Now, the big question. How many of you
have boxes of VHS movies and recordings sitting around with no means to play
them?
I’m betting the answers are high to no longer having a VCR and even higher
for boxes of VHS tapes that can’t be played. Or maybe you still have a VCR but
it’s no longer connected to anything as it has been replaced by the DVD player.
So now what do you do with all those tapes.
Many of you will simply re-buy your favourite movies in DVD format. That’s easy enough to do. What about all the home videos having those special family moments? You can’t buy those DVDs and you definitely can’t replace the memories. And training tapes – are you
keeping that decrepit old VCR around just to train your staff, when these days
the training video could be played so easily on your computer system or
TV?
This problem is not new obviously. Are all the old reel to reel movies still
on reels? Unless you own a movie theatre, you’d be hard-pressed to find a movie
projector these days. What about slides? Do you remember dealing with boxes of
slides and trying to get them in the carousel in the correct order? The pages of
notes you needed to correspond your presentation to your slide show. Oh my –
isn’t technology today wonderful?
Here we are today, taking our old VHS tapes, Super 8 reels, 8mm16mm films, Mini DV, Beta tape, Audio Cassettes to MP3, LP disk, 3mm slides, etc. to places like the UPS Store to be converted to DVD so we keep these movies, memories, training tapes and music. It’s relatively inexpensive and you are saving your life memories. Blu-Ray capability is now
possible as well. Not to mention a DVD takes up much less space than the bulky VHS tape, the quality is sharper and will last longer. And even if you still have your VCR, the quality of the tape deteriorates with time. Heck, what are you waiting for.Get converting!
Oh and please don’t get me started with what’s going to happen to society with no memories 50 years from now – no one prints pictures any longer. History
will be in the electronics recycling bin!