Your delicate camcorder tapes (and home movie film) can now be preserved on DVD, at reasonable cost! Videotapes can become unplayable through no fault of their owner. Even under the best conditions, videotape is only expected to last about 15 years. A DVD is not indestructible, but playing it hundreds or thousands of times does not harm it. The quality is far better than that of a VHS tape. DVD is considered a "keeper" medium.

Family Tree Digital Memories can straight transfer your videotapes to DVD. Simply number your tapes in the order you want them transferred to DVD. Your DVD price will be based on the number of videotapes that you want to transfer. Editing services are available at an hourly rate.

Basic DVD:  We can copy your single tape of up to 2 hours* to a DVD for $25.
Combination DVD: If you have multiple tapes, we can copy them to DVD in sequence. Each additional tape to the same DVD is $15. *Maximum total is 2 hours.

DVD's from Mini-DV and Digital8 can be copied by direct digital hookup via IEEE1394 Fire Wire I-link connection, for a lossless cloned disk.

DVD -R and DVD +R mean Digital Video/Versatile Disk, Recordable. Most modern and future DVD players will accept these, just like the mass produced stamped-out DVDs. Some older players may balk at playing one or the other of them. If you are not sure, we can loan you a sample DVD-R disk and DVD +R disk for you to try. If it will play one of the samples, we will know which format to use.