What is the best way to preserve old home movies on DVDs?
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mazingerz88 (
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December 7th, 2023
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I have around 30 DVDs of edited home movies and it just dawned on me that there will come a time when DVD players will cease to exist. What can I do to preserve these precious videos while there is time? Thank you!
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As @TW said, copy them from the DVDs to your computer then place files in cloud storage (OneDrive, DropBox, Google Drive, iCloud, etc.). I would also get an external hard drive (250GB, 500GB, etc.) and back them up there too.
This way, you’ll have them in four places (DVD, computer, cloud, external hard drive).
I also converted mine to 1080 web videos and published them to YouTube (privately). This way I can share the links with family who want to see them.
You can save them to your computer, to a thumb drive, and on the cloud.
Have it done professionally.
Then to whatever suits you
@kritiper “Professionally” is charging a fortune to use the free software I linked.
@Blackwater_Park That’s right, folks.
“Shit happens.”
And it costs a fortune!!!
Welcome to the real world!
Of course, you could always buy several DVD players and keep them in reserve for those future uses.
As long as there is USB and USB-c, there will be DVD players available.
I have converted old 8mm home movies to DVD. I also copied them to a couple local USB disks. Movies take up a lot of space and I refuse to pay a monthly Cloud charge for this type of data.
^^My movies will take up a lot of space. 30 hours at least. Yikes.
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