My husband and I bought our first video camera during my first pregnancy 19 years ago. We bought an 8mm camera, and took video frequently when our children were young. Then the camera broke and technology changed and everything went digital. As a result we have a huge box of 8mm video tapes that we never even look at. In fact my 15 year old daughter didn’t even realize we had video footage from when she was a baby, so I doubt we have watched one of those videos in at least 10 years!
Now it is possible to get those old video tapes and slides transferred to DVD. YesVideo provides a way to bring video and photo memories into the digital age. They can take your video tapes, reel to reel tapes, old home movies, slides and photographs and transfer them to DVD so you can enjoy them for years to come.
I had the chance to use YesVideo’s services to transfer three of my old 8mm video tapes to DVD. It was a very simple process, I placed an order online and then mailed my videotapes to YesVideo. About 10 days later I received 3 DVDs in the mail, and my 8mm tapes back as well.
The DVDS are everything I hoped they would be! My children and I enjoyed watching them on our TV and our computer, and it is fun to see the children when they were so small. Now that they are teenagers it is hard to even remember how cute they were as babies! I enjoyed watching scenes I had totally forgotten about, like my girls playing with the big blue bouquet of balloons after their little brother was born. 
My DVDs are each about 2 hours long and have 54 chapters, so it is easy to skip around and find what you are looking for, which of course is not possible at all with video tapes. The DVDs also include 3 one-minute music video highlights that have a montage of scenes from the DVD. These are a nice bonus, and are fun to watch. When you order online you get to pick the title, theme and background music that will be on the DVD. I picked 3 different themes, Standard, Baby and Children, so all the boxes have different art.
Now that I have tried the service I definitely plan to transfer more videos! The transfer price varies depending on what you select, but my transferring my videos cost $19.99 each, plus shipping. This is a fair price, but expensive enough that I am not going to transfer my remaining 30 videos all at once. Luckily YesVideo is running some fabulous promotions leading up to the holidays, so you can save money on your transfer.- First of all, you can use the code TRANSFER15 during check out at YesVideo for 15% off your order. If you’d like try to win a gift certificate for a transfer you can enter their Facebook Fall Photo Contest. Even though you do have to upload a photo this isn’t a voting or judging contest, the winner is selected randomly. In addition they are having a twitter party on November 15th at 8:00 PM CST, using the hashtag #HolidayMemories, with more opportunities to win. And lastly you can enter below to win a $60 transfer service coupon.
Entry Method: Please use Rafflecopter form for all entries. There is no mandatory entry. This giveaway will end at 11:59 pm on November 28th. Open to residents 18+ of U.S., and the transfer coupon must be redeemed online.
Disclosure: I received services in exchange for the review, all opinions are my own.
I’d love to transfer some home movies and films to DVD. Thanks!
I’d like to transfer my Navy graduation tape as well as my footage of my children.
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I’d love to transfer my home movies on VHS to DVD thanks!
I would definitely love to transfer old home movies and special event movies to DVD! Thanks for the giveaway!
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I would transfer my old high school movies we made onto DVD
I have a lot of old videos of my nieces and nephew when they were little that I would love transferred.
Like you, I have 8mm movies that I want to transfer into DVD.
I’d love to transfer our little one’s first Christmas.
old family videos of when i was a kid (on vhs)
sarah at realtorsd.com
I have some old tapes of when my son was little. Would like to get them switched over.
I have some really old family slides~
great!!!!
I’d like to transfer videos of my kids
Thanks!
The birth of my daughter.
Thanks for the chance.
mogrill12@gmail.com
I’d like to transfer the ’93 Christmas video we have of me, my sister, and dad onto DVD.
it funny that this contest came up cause i was just thinking what a greaT christmas present it would be for my mom to be able to watch her old reel movies
I’d like to transfer my wedding VHS tape to DVD
greeneyedtami@gmail.com
We have some vacation tapes that are kind of old that would love toh ave transfered
brich22 at earthlink dot net
my old dvds
vmkids3 at msn dot com
We have videos of our kids that we’d love to transfer.
beckytag618 at gmail dot com
I would transfer my boyfriend’s band concerts
I’d love to transfer the vhs tapes we have of myself as a kid.
monorox(at)gmail(dot)com
my sons graduation and others sons baseball game. debra.pauley63@gmail.com
I have mini dvs of my wedding i need transfered!
The first two years of my daughters life!
I have old family videos I would like to transfer.
Thank you.
This is great. I have about 6 VHS movies I would love to gift my parents by turning them into DVD, b ut have not been able to afford it! erinnsluka@gmail.com
I’d transfer slides that we took over the 30 years my husband was in the Army.
I have some old family videos on vhs , of some of my family members who have passed on, that I would love to transfer over to DVD.
cweller75@gmail.com
Home movies from when I was little (1960′s) I would love to be able to see those again!
Connie G
CGruning at aol(dot)com
I have some pictures from a Cancun trip 12 years ago that I have on 3 1/2″ discs, I would love to send in those!
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We transferred all of our old 8mm home films to DVD using Yes Video though Costco. We were very excited to get them back and had them make copies for everyone in my family. What a disappointment! We got them back and found that they put them in the wrong order that I had labeled them, plus they took them off the old reels and respliced them out of order. Not only that, but the films were jumpy, like when the tracking is off from a VHS tape. I called their customer service and they said that’s a common occurence and can be corrected by adjusting the projector. OK, then why didn’t they do that in the first place? I had them redo the DVD’s, and when I got them back most of the jumping was corrected, however, I noticed that the total length on the DVD’s differed substancially from the originals (we had 3 separate DVD’s made). Looking into this further, we noticed that there were films and parts of films on the original copy that weren’t on the redo and visa-versa. THEY WEREN’T PUTTING ALL OF OUR FILMS ONTO THE DVD! Also, one of the DVD’s had a different ratio on it causing the film to look zoomed in and cropped. I again contacted their customer service and returned the DVD’s for another redo. The third time I got them back they finally got all the films onto the DVD, but the jumping was back on one of them and another still had the wrong picture ratio. This time when I called them they told me this was the best they could do and they would not correct it. So,after 7 months, not only is this company completely irresponsible and incompetent, but they settle for imperfection with your precious home videos. Yes Video? More like, No Video!