Posts Tagged ‘video transfer’

New Video Towers!

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

We all have old video tapes with special footage from past family vacations and birthday celebrations stored away somewhere. And our ScanDigital team works hard to transform those tapes into DVDs for preservation. ScanDigital’s Video Transfer service handles VHS, VHS-C, BetaMax, Hi8, MiniDV and Digital 8 and will put your memories on DVD for you to enjoy them anytime you’d like.

Once digital, there are endless ways to enjoy your video footage. You will be able to watch your home movies on the computer or through any DVD player, edit the film through computer software, post your videos online to share with loved ones, backup your DVD with an external hard drive and easily make copies to give as gifts to friends and family.

Our Video Transfer service is actually getting so popular, thanks to our amazing customers of course, that we had to add new video towers to our facility this week! Check out Richard, one of our Video Technicians installing one of the new towers here to the left.

As we always say, we wouldn’t be growing so fast if it weren’t for our amazing customers. Thank you all so much for trusting us with your memories and allowing us to help preserve and protect them.

If you’re interested in getting your videos transferred to DVD, learn more here. If you have any questions feel free to email us at info@scandigital.com.

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Nissan Makes Waves With Electric Car

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Nissan Makes Waves With Electric Car

Nissan LEAF Coming To America This December

Nissan has been making waves with its new compact, 5-door hatchback, 100% electric car, the LEAF. The LEAF, or “Leading Environmentally-friendly Affordable Family car,” is slated to be the first practical, affordable, fully electric car marketed to the mainstream masses. Sales of the LEAF are scheduled to begin in December, but quantities will be limited at first, and only those who have placed online reservations to receive one will have a chance to be one of the first LEAF drivers. Spring 2011 will see a second burst of LEAFs onto our shores, and a full U.S. market rollout is planned for 2012. Even before it hits the streets, the LEAF is in high demand. The car has such a buzz about it that it even has its own Facebook page! (http://www.facebook.com/nissanleaf) So What’s all the fuss about?

Well, according to Nissan the LEAF can go an average of 100 miles between charges (though initial road tests by independent parties suggest that that number can vary by as much as 40% in either direction, depending on driving style and road conditions). Still for every-day city driving, LEAF drivers could plug their cars in at night, and never buy another drop of gas. And electricity from a plug is far cheaper, and far greener, than pumping gas into a regular car. The LEAF produces no local air pollution since it produces zero emissions, and it enhances energy security because it does not rely on imported oil. Also, the long-term cost of ownership is more stable and more predictable than gas-guzzlers, because the fluctuating cost of gasoline does not affect LEAF drivers at all. In the long run, gas will continue to become more expensive, while grid-based electricity will potentially become cheaper and greener as power companies embrace clean energy sources such as wind and solar, and continue to refine the uses of fossil-fuels such as natural gas and coal.

Nissan has been going to great lengths to advertise the LEAF, and a video transfer of the latest LEAF commercial has been creating buzz on the internet since it first aired during last Thursday’s season-opening NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings. The ad features a polar bear, sadly watching from a tiny iceberg as its habitat melts due to climate change. The bear then swims to land, and begins a long journey through wildernesses both natural and manmade, until it reaches the driveway of an environmentally-conscious LEAF-driver. The bear then embraces the man, and the two share a special moment. This little video transfer may make you cry, or it may just bring a smile to your face. Either way, the marketing team at Nissan sure knows how to tug at the heart strings.

For more information of the Nissan LEAF, including photos, video transfers, and more, visit http://www.nissanusa.com/future-and-concept-vehicles/.

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Shark Week Is Back!

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Shark Week Is Back!

Discovery Channel’s 23rd Annual Shark Week Gets Closer Than Ever To The Action

On July 27th, 1987, the Discovery Channel aired the first “Shark Week,” a week-long series of feature programs dedicated to the ocean’s most intriguing and most misunderstood predator. Now celebrating its 23rd annual spot as one of the summer’s most anticipated television events, Shark Week 2010 brings new technology, new hosts, and six all-new shark programs to shark-lovers everywhere.

Last year’s Shark Week included a program called “Air Jaws: The Sharks of South Africa,” which quickly became one of the most-watched Shark Week programs of all time. This year’s schedule includes a follow-up program entitled “Ultimate Air Jaws,” which will feature a high-speed (2,000 frames per second) HD video transfer with footage of great white sharks leaping out of the water as they attack seals and other slippery prey off the coast of South Africa. At that frame rate, one second of action can be smoothly slowed down to take up nearly a whole minute! Along with other state-of-the-art technology including a submarine and a remotely-operated helicopter, this super-slow-motion HD video transfer has allowed shark expert Chris Fallows and filmmaker Jeff Kurr to capture the speed and strength of great white sharks in more detail than ever before.

And if that’s not close enough to the action for your tasted, check out a new special called “Into the Shark Bite,” which premiers August 1st at 10 PM. In this program, shark expoert Mark Addison and underwater cameraman Andy Casagrande show you what a shark attack looks like from the prey’s point of view. That’s right, these guys actually risked their lives to get the customized mini-HD camera inside the mouths of massive great white sharks!

Other notable programs from this year’s Shark Week include “Shark Attack Survival Guide,” hosted by Special Forces vet Terry Schappert, and “Shark Bites: Adventures in Shark Week,” hosted by the Late Late Show’s Craig Ferguson.

For more information about this year’s Shark Week programming, visit http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/shark-week.

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Apple Rejects Adobe Flash (Again)

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Apple Rejects Adobe Flash (Again)

Apple And Adobe Continue Conflict

iphone_noFlashWhen the gadget wizards at Apple released the first iPhone in 2007, consumers everywhere went a bit bonkers for the do-it-all device, but Web developers noticed what seemed to be a glaring omission from the phone’s feature set: support for Adobe Flash. As one of the tech industry’s leading Web browser plug-ins, Flash powers more online video and animation that any other software. Since the iPhone’s release, thousands of tech reviewers and every-day users have issued complaints and requests to Apple regarding the iPhone’s inability to support Flash-based content, but Apple has remained firm in its decision to exclude Flash from the world’s most popular smartphone.

Last month, Apple further snubbed Adobe with the release of its first tablet computer, the iPad, which also does not support Flash-based video transfer or animation. The backlash from Adobe has not gone unnoticed, and though both Apple and Adobe have remained relatively poised in their escalating conflict, the release of the iPad, which is marketed as a more full-featured Internet browser than its pocket-sized counterpart, has seemingly fanned the flames.

 Adobe recently issued a converting program for Flash developers that allows Flash-based applications to be easily ported to various mobile operating systems, including Google’s Android, RIM’s Blackberry, and Apple’s iPhone. In what has been called an aggressive maneuver (if not full-blown attack) from CEO Steve Jobs, Apple has blocked all applications created with the Flash video transfer converter. Mike Chambers, Adobe’s product manager for Flash video, said in his blog that Apple wants to “tie developers down to their platform, and restrict their options to make it difficult for developers to target other platforms.” Apple spokeswoman Truly Miller responded in an unusually candid manner for the typically tight-lipped company, saying that Apple products support “open and standard” technologies like the video transfer used in the markup language HTML5. She went on to say that “Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary.”

At least partially in response to the demand from iPhone users, many Web developers have begun to remove Flash content from their sites. Apple is quick to point out that several mainstream websites, including CNN, Reuters, The New York Times, Major League Baseball, Vimeo, The White House, Virgin America, Flickr, and Sports Illustrated are all currently Flash-free, opting to use HTML5 video instead. Even Apple’s semi-rival Google has made changes to YouTube to allow iPhone users to watch videos on the site.

Despite its exclusion from the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, Flash remains the industry-leading interactive Web platform for video transfer. It seems highly unlikely that Apple will change its position, but future developments in the conflict are expected to unravel over the next year.

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