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11.27.2000
YesVideo
Launches New Videotape-to-CD
Transfer Service To Help
Consumers Preserve and Share
their Stockpiled Home Videos
Painless
New Transfer Service Also
Available through Bay Area Photo
Stores
SAN JOSE,
Calif. – November 27, 2000
– YesVideo announced
today a new service to help Bay
Area residents resurrect and
organize the more than 300
million home movies that are
gathering dust on their shelves.
The convenient service will turn
these home movies into CDs with
vivid memories that can, for the
first time, be easily customized,
duplicated and shared with
friends and families. YesVideo is
making its services available
through nearly 50 photo stores
throughout the greater Bay Area,
and nationally through its new
website at www.yesvideo.com.
Transfer of video to DVD will be
available early in 2001.
YesVideo’s
innovative new service makes
tapes simple to share over the
Internet, and also protects
against videotape degradation,
which threatens the permanent
recording of life’s most
momentous events.
“Unlike
diamonds, videotapes are not
forever,” said Sai-Wai Fu,
co-founder and CEO of YesVideo.
“VHS tapes start to degrade
after 70 viewings and/or 15
years, even under optimal storage
conditions, which most of us
don’t have. Video footage
transferred to CDs will not
deteriorate. Perhaps more
importantly, home movies
transferred onto CDs by YesVideo
can be trimmed, rearranged
scene-by-scene and customized so
that friends and family actually
will want to see them, by way of
inexpensive CD copies or for free
on the Internet.
“It’s
the logical next step following
the explosion of shared
photos,” continued Mr. Fu.
“Now your mother can see her
grandchildren sneaking pieces of
Thanksgiving turkey by viewing a
CD or watching a webcast that
you’ve set up for her.
It’s a crime to think of the
more than 300 million videos
sitting in people’s homes
throughout the U.S. that are only
infrequently viewed or shared
that are deteriorating a little
bit every year.”
While transfer
of videotapes to CDs has been
possible previously, the
alternatives were typically
either finding and making several
trips to a professional
duplicating facility (which could
charge $150 per hour) or going to
the difficulty and expense of
buying, installing and learning
transfer and editing hardware and
software at home.
In contrast,
YesVideo’s solution is as
simple as dropping off the tape
to one of the participating photo
shops listed on YesVideo’s
site, www.yesvideo.com or by
mailing tapes directly to
YesVideo. Suggested retail
pricing will be $29.95 for up to
1 hour of video transferred, and
$39.95 for up to two hours of
video transferred.
As a result of
YesVideo’s patent-pending
process, CDs produced by YesVideo
have built-in software that
allows viewers to select and view
individual video scenes in any
order they wish. Customers can
rearrange the scenes and even
eliminate unwanted footage by a
simple “drag and drop”
procedure. The selected, trimmed
scenes can then be shared for
free by webcast through
YesVideo’s web site, or
through CDs duplicated
inexpensively by YesVideo.
For example, a
bride may arrange the video
scenes on her CD to emphasize
shots of her sorority sisters.
Then she can email her friends
the link to view the preferred
scenes on YesVideo.com’s
website at no charge, or order CD
copies to send as presents.
“I love
watching the videos of my son on
the computer. They’re much
easier to look at without the
hassle of dragging out the
camcorder,” said Bay Area
resident Lorraine Woodruff Long,
a tester of YesVideo’s
transfer service. “My
favorite part is that we can
quickly scan the scenes and go
right to the ones we want to see
in any order we want. And I
rearrange and trim scenes,
posting only the very best clips
for my parents and friends to see
on the Internet.”
All CDs arrive
in customized cases with pictures
of the most important scenes on
the cover. Starting early 2001,
YesVideo will also transfer
videos onto two-hour DVDs to
serve the increasing number of
consumers purchasing both DVD-ROM
drives and DVD players. Right
now, there are about 17 million
DVD-ROM drives and 9 million DVD
players in the U.S. in addition
to the more than 100 million
CD-ROM drives.
About
YesVideo.com
YesVideo is the most convenient,
cost-effective and complete
service for digitizing,
customizing and sharing home
videos on CD, the web and, in
early 2001, DVD. Sai-Wai Fu, a
pioneer in digital video and
compression technology, founded
the company in 1999. The company
is located at 2249 Zanker Road in
San Jose, Calif., and can be
reached by phone at
1-877-817-5375 or on the Internet
at www.yesvideo.com.
Please direct
all press inquiries to:pr@yesvideo.com.
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