I don’t have a DVD Player
DVD discs are great for long-term storage. Our discs have a factory advised lifespan of 50 years plus. They are made using Japanese dyes which give a high quality product. If you choose our Premier transfer then you get the best-quality discs which are perfect for home movies and anything of importance. We no longer use DVD’s as much in our lives. Netflix and Amazon Prime have changed how we watch new TV series and movies. Iplayer is a great way to catch up on content we have missed. So what is next after DVD’s?
USB Sticks (memory sticks)
Using a memory stick (USB stick) or pen drive is the next evolution of digital storage. Orion Media can take those DVD’s you have created from your old vhs video tapes and camcorder tapes and turn them into computer files. These can be stored on a memory stick (which we can supply) and played on your TV. We know most people use several devices and a memory stick is great for playing in your smart TV, computer, games console, tablet and smartphone. You can buy little adaptors that stick in your phone’s charger port and then insert the memory stick into the adapter. This lets you look at your video clips that have been created from your vhs tapes and camcorder tapes on your smartphone or tablet. Even if you don’t have a smart TV, most DVD players will have a usb slot so you can insert your memory stick into the dvd player and view them on the TV. The price to convert from DVD to a computer file is £5 per disc. If you have more than 10 tapes the price is reduced to £4 per disc.
Online Streaming/Storage
Cloud storage is a simple term to describe storing your video clips and photos online using a companies servers. So google provides all gmail and android users with 15GB of storage free of charge (enough for around 7 hours of footage). This is fine for viewing on your phone but what if you want to view them on the TV? Orion Media now offer a service to store your video files on your own private youtube channel. Here only you can access your home movies. They are not public, they are private and cannot be viewed by anyone unless you give them permission or give them the website address to the video. Youtube allows unlimited free storage of all your videos. The best part is youtube is accessible from all of your devices. You can easily view your home movies from your smartphone, tablet, TV and computer. Youtube allows you to also edit the videos so you can create clips to share with friends and family easily. We now offer this service to all our customers for £5 per video file. If you have more than 10 video files the price is £4 each. This is to upload the video file to your own private account as a private video which only you and whoever you allow can see the video. Easy viewing on all your devices and sharing with all your family of all your videos created from VHS video tapes, 8mm and mini-dv camcorder tapes and even from 8mm cine films. Just one of the new services offered by Orion Media.
