Advantages of transferring to a digital format over DVDs
- All flat screen TVs have a USB port built in to enable playing videos directly from a USB device using the remote control you do not need any technical or computer skills to do this 90+ year old have no trouble with this
- DVDs are history and on the way out, much fewer people now have a DVD player by the TV and hardly any will in the future
- We charge less than standard DVD
- Easily viewable on a computer whereas most computer these days do not have a DVD drive
- Multiple video files (average 30 can fit on a single USB stick - for DVDs you will have the same number as you tapes
- USB sticks have the same advantages as a hard drive but just have a smaller capacity up to an average of 64 hours of footage per 64 GB USB stick where as hard drive can fit 100s of tapes
- The videos are editable with the right software, this is very complex with a DVD
- You can rename the files if you need to
- Backups are straightforward using copy and paste - backing up DVDs requires specific software and hardware
- Passing on to friends and family very easy just copy and paste to another computer or via the internet
- Can be put onto a private YouTube channel, this is complex with DVDs
- DVDs can be lost
- DVDs are much harder to backup than digital files
- DVDs can break or get scratched
- Can be easily uploaded to a cloud drive e.g. onedrive, google drive, dropbox
Do you really need any more reasons!
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