YesVideo Videotape to DVD Conversion Kit (2302000020) | Easy way to convert your videotapes to...

YesVideo Videotape to DVD Conversion Kit (2302000020) | Will recommend to my mother

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	YesVideo Videotape to DVD Conversion Kit (2302000020) average customer review:based on 5 reviews
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Easy way to convert your videotapes to DVD!!!!!

After crashing my PC six times trying to transfer my camcorder tapes to DVD, I found this mailer kit. It works like mail order photo processing -- just send in your videotape and a DVD comes back.

The DVD has a really cool feature in that there are pictures from the video that are used as a menu screen on the outside cover. This is great for reminding everyone what is on the videotape that has a title like "Summer 1998". There are also music videos on the DVD made from my own footage. This was interesting but I wish they were a little longer.

All in all, this is a great service at a great price. I wish I could get my money back for my fancy PC with its DVD drive.

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Will recommend to my mother

I wanted to find a service that was easy enough for my parents to use, and high enough quality that it would be worth the price and hassle. The options I found were a number of software products for the PC (too complex) and a few mail-in services like YesVideo that parse the videos into equally-timed chapters, which I thought would be annoying to view and search.

So I opted for YesVideo and ran a test. The test consisted of (holding my breath and) sending all 29 family videotapes we've recorded over the years of our kids growing up, and waiting to see what was returned. I did this without the knowledge of my spouse -- gambling with my life.

I was impressed and extremely satisfied with the result. The service was much faster than I anticipated (only a couple of days), and the quality was terrific. Video and audio both. The intelligent parsing of the footage is much appreciated -- we can skip over the embarrassing stuff (like me in a swim suit) and not have to search for our son's birthday or our daughter's first steps. The DVD case also has screenshots on the front that make searching a real cinch -- this is a big deal when looking through 29 volumes of video for the right moment in time.

On top of all this we got a photo CD with a bunch of digital photo-quality still images taken from the actual video footage. Not sure how they decide which ones to take, but it turned out a bit like a roll of film -- some good ones, some bad ones, and one or two that you want to put on your wall. Of course, they also returned the original videotapes, but I'm guessing the DVDs will outlast the originals anyway.

In the end, I surprised my spouse with the achievement of transferring all of our memories to DVD, and she was very pleased. (And I got doubles for my parents, which I'm saving for a Christmas present.) The test was a smashing success, and I'm going to recommend the service to everyone. It's a great service, and definitely worth the price. I don't know of any other reliable way to convert taped memories to DVD with such ease & efficiency. I give it 5 stars.

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Quality was not what I had hoped!

Tried two sets of home movies with these folks through Costco; they use YesVideo.
The first set were sound home movies that came back with no sound - even though it was clearly marked on the order form. So, we had them redone; but, this time the picture quality was extremely grainy / almost lacey looking. The film had jumped in spots, and there were lines in the DVD picture that were not there in our original films. We know our movies were NOT in that bad of condition. So, they redid it a third time. It seems they really did try, but now our films were damaged and there was no way of getting the original quality transfered to a DVD.
Also, there were spots where I KNOW our film was not out of focus, but it is on the DVD. I wish this service worked better. But, I'm going to look elsewhere. The people were at least very nice.

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