{"id":14737,"date":"2016-06-06T15:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T19:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=14737"},"modified":"2016-06-06T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T19:33:59","slug":"converting-old-videotapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/06\/converting-old-videotapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting Old Videotapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pogueman.tumblr.com\/post\/145366657062\/the-time-to-rescue-your-old-videotapes-is-right\">David Pogue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/pogueman.tumblr.com\/post\/145366657062\/the-time-to-rescue-your-old-videotapes-is-right\">\n<p>As it turns out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesvideo.com\">YesVideo<\/a> and Costo (and Walmart and CVS) are the same thing. (YesVideo &ldquo;white labels&rdquo; &mdash; secretly does the work &mdash; for those other chains.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southtree.com\">Southtree<\/a> does its own work out of a 40,000 square-foot production facility in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. They have over 1,000 playback machines. I liked what I read on its site.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s really odd is that Southtree, YesVideo and other competitors seem hell-bent on converting your old tapes to <em>DVDs.<\/em> [&#8230;] What I wanted, of course, was for all of the video to be put onto a hard drive or flash drive, but none of that is available on Southtree&rsquo;s price list (or YesVideo&rsquo;s).<\/p>\n<p>Nick assured me, though, that they do offer this service. If that&rsquo;s what you want, you sign up for the DVD conversion and then type something like, &ldquo;copy to the drive I&rsquo;ve supplied&rdquo; in your order notes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Pogue: As it turns out, YesVideo and Costo (and Walmart and CVS) are the same thing. (YesVideo &ldquo;white labels&rdquo; &mdash; secretly does the work &mdash; for those other chains.) Southtree does its own work out of a 40,000 square-foot production facility in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. They have over 1,000 playback machines. I liked what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1391,97],"class_list":["post-14737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-vhs","tag-video"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14738,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14737\/revisions\/14738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}