Today is a very big day indeed! No, it isn't my milestone birthday (that was over the weekend ... which, by the way, was absolutely classic). But, this one is about priceless memories as well.
As in priceless memories contained in nearly 70 MiniDV videotapes that I captured of my family from roughly 2000-2007 -- during the most early days of my kids' lives (they are now 10 and 13).
Today, I ship my kids -- at least the memories of my kids captured on tape -- off to YesVideo to transfer them online for streaming (no files yet) and, I believe, to DVDs (although DVDs are already outdated of course). I literally am boxing them up, taking them to UPS, and mailing them away. Which is a very scary proposition -- and one fraught with tremendous responsibility for both YesVideo and UPS. After all, I have no duplicates. As Eminem would say, "You only get one shot, don't miss your chance to blow, this opportunity strikes once in a lifetime, yo!"
I just recently learned about YesVideo. My daughter and I had just been talking about how fun it would be to view all of these videos, which have been boxed up for years ... collecting dust. The problem is that the video camera that we used to capture those videos has been M.I.A. for years. That's the problem with technology -- once it becomes obsolete, you frequently left are in no man's zone. And, I have been immersed in the video technology business for years! So, I highly doubt that others -- tens of millions of us -- aren't facing the same thing.
THAT's the opportunity for YesVideo, which claims that more than 5 million families have already trusted them to transfer their videos online. I now will be one of them.
Will they knock it out of the park a la Em in "Eight Mile"?
Stay tuned. I will report back on my experience.
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