The digital era prompted people to make critical choices. DVDs and DVD players replaced videotapes. To meet emerging needs, new services appeared and new jobs were created, expanding an already fast- growing industry.

Preserving for the future

If you would like to preserve your important family records (weddings, births, anniversary moments) or your business presentations, then transfer them to DVD formats.

Old formats have been abandoned because:

• old videotapes are much more fragile
• over time degradation is imminent
• videotapes lose their quality unless you make copies
• they do not allow easy access. It is more difficult to use the play and search functions. Perhaps this is the greatest disadvantage of videos.

With a DVD format you can:

1. watch DVDs far more conveniently, and even on the road, with portables, desktops and laptops
2. browse through scenes and jump directly to a favorite clip. The DVD menus and chapters permit this. DVDs may also include other materials, such as photo-slide shows and computer files. Perhaps the biggest advantages of digital technology are :
3. each copy you make is an precise duplicate of the original, so you can show and register your memories into the future.

In other words, you have the possibility to make personal optimized records.

Well, who can do all these, at high standard ?

• You, on your own. If you want your video transferred onto DVD with basic menus and chapters, you should ask for services like YesVideo and HomeMovie.com. All you have to do is send them the tapes. They are to digitize and process them into DVD format, burn them to disc, and then ship back what you asked for. The client is offered the possibility to get the tapes back from a store that represents one of these services. Or, in case you don't have enough time or required skills,
• A professional video production or DVD authoring facility to make the job.

Live Event Production Services

By recording live award shows, live concerts, outdoor music festivals, corporate events and variety shows, the entertainment industry has given a whole new significance to videography industry. There are now many professional companies doing this job at very high quality levels. They have to register/shoot and edit what happens on the stage, but also:

• to integrate various moments: the show itself, short interviews before and after, what is called "behind the scenes", very appreciated by the artists themselves and the audience, too
• finally, to pack all formats: live orchestras, audio and video playback, television production, sound systems and put on a DVD format to deliver
• to authorize the product

Given the fact that this kind of video productions have an additional documentary value, they are highly rated in the entertainment industry. Besides,

1. the easiness of delivering and playing in home theater or on long trips by car
2. the compatibility and
3. the connectivity on different advanced players

make live event productions very popular, too. And all these, thanks to the yielding DVDs revolution.