With Mother’s Day right around the corner, it can often be tough to decide what to get mom this year. Sure, you could go out and buy the annual staples like some flowers and a nice card, but what about giving mom something not only special and unique, but something that can last her an...Read More
Throughout the country and the world, there are still millions of pieces of analog media in storage, desperately needing to be converted into a digital format before time takes it’s toll. In 2005 the first comprehensive national survey of the condition and preservation needs of the nation’s collections reported that U.S. institutions hold more than...Read More
We are excited to announce that we just lowered our pricing on ALL media transfer services, and this pricing is here to stay! DVD Your Memories pricing is now simpler, more uniform and competitive for all of our awesome services. Thank you to all of our customers for your support and and your interest in...Read More
How would you feel if every home movie and photograph of your kids, parents, and friends were gone in an instant? How would you ever replace those invaluable memories? When preparing for the thought of a natural disaster such as a flood, fire, tornado, or hurricane many of us think about those precious belongings we...Read More
Gift giving is a special way to show someone you care about them. Sure, you could always go out and buy a few gift cards to iTunes and call it a day. Now, this is completely fine for some occaisions, but once in a while it’s important to give a gift that’s both unique, personal...Read More
Storage units are great for many types of people and families, providing a simple solution for an over-cluttered home or to keep your belongings secured either temporarily or long-term while in the middle of a move. With the boom in popularity of shows like Storage Wars and Auction Hunters, more and more people are being...Read More
Memories are powerful. Memories are one of the few things we can possess in this life that can never be taken from us. Our recordings of those moments, however, can be lost. If those recordings are stored in older media formats such as video tapes, they are even greater risk. Older media formats are much...Read More
As human beings, it’s common for us to want to to pass down something to our children for them to remember us by. Before photography and video cameras, we had no real way to see how things were in the past, apart from drawings and paintings, and most of what was known about family history...Read More
There are many reasons to transfer your family’s cherished media such as video tapes, photos, slides and film to a more modern, accessible format like DVD. Not only will transferring allow you to view your media at any time, it also preserves your family videos, photos and film to prevent any further degradation! Here are...Read More
When comparing archival grade DVD-R discs, you may have run across Gold Archival DVDs which claim to keep your DVDs safe and stable for a hundred or more years. These gold DVD manufacturers claim superiority over traditional silver alloy DVDs because using gold on the reflective layer (the part which is read by DVD lasers)...Read More
Do you use Memorex exPressit Label Maker? It is a great program for quickly printing labels for your media including DVD, CD, diskette and Blu-ray. The program does a great job providing some basic templates to get you started, but sometimes you might need some additional templates that don’t come native to the program, or...Read More
Although we don’t specialize in printing at DVD Your Memories, we do use printers each day to print things like documents, invoices and even CD and DVD labels for our video to DVD and film transfer customers. For printing DVD and CD labels, we have been using an inkjet model R280 by Epson. We’ve tried...Read More
Don’t forget to check out Ellen Browning Scripps Elementary School Fall Festival in Scripps Ranch on October 19th at 5:30pm. Bring the whole family for a fun evening of games, bingo, cake walks, face painting, food vendors, teacher play date silent auction, and much more. DVD Your Memories will be donating some gift certificates good...Read More
When it comes to scanning oversized photos and prints in a detailed manner, nothing comes close to the Epson 10000XL Wide-Format graphics arts scanner. Although much larger than your typical flatbed scanner, this unit can scan photos and prints sized up to 12.2 by 17.2 inches on one pass! This is great for artists and...Read More
At DVD Your Memories, we often need to get many people, across many stores, involved in a discussion. Trying to schedule a meeting where everyone is free, and everyone has to be there for the entire thing, is often more trouble than it is worth. We’ve tried a lot of software solutions, in all cases...Read More
Here’s the schedule of which stores will be open on Monday, Sept. 3rd for Labor Day. San Diego Store: 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM Orange County Store: Closed Los Angeles Store: Closed Denver Store: Closed Have a great weekend!Read More
Did you know you can learn about your extended family simply through social media? Social media has been growing steadily in recent years with now more people online than ever before, sharing photos and other media with each other’s friends and family. It allows people to connect with people far, far away instantly and share...Read More
Check out the video below for how to make a custom home movie projector yourself from spare parts around the house! Hook it up to any video source and you can watch your Video to DVD movies on a big screen!Read More
The benefits of Blu-ray vs. DVD For a while now, DVDs have been the standard format for optical media, as it holds much more data than CD-R and is more versatile by allowing the user to store data such as images and photos, but also create playable Movies and audio discs from DVDs. By now,...Read More
The Culver City stop of the newly built Metro Exposition line is now open, and it stops just in front of our Los Angeles store! Phase 1 of the $930-million light rail Expo Line is now complete, marking the first time these trains will serve this part of the city since the old Red Trolley...Read More
Yelp’s Favorite Local Media Transfer in Southern California Locals Love us On Yelp! We here at DVD Your Memories have been working hard for over fifteen years to be the best media transfer company in Southern California. We love helping every one of our customers to experience the joy of reviving their memories to digital...Read More
Thousands of items are shipped around the world each day, arriving right on time to the correct destination. Shipping your memories can make some people worried, mostly because there are no replacements for these items. They are truly unique and one of a kind, and once lost, they are gone forever. Some common questions potential...Read More
Back in the old days, there were no such things as USB flash drives, portable hard drives and WiFi. To transfer data from one computer to another, you had to load your data onto floppy disks. Many people have fond memories loading basic programs, documents and scanning photos onto these disks to bring to class...Read More
Our San Diego store is having a special promotion on our video tape transfers. All tapes up to two hours will only cost you $15.00. Save up to 50% off of your video transfer order in San Diego. This promotion is only for video tapes that are being transferred to DVD, and not available with...Read More
