It is official!  We'll soon have a public studio in the K2 building of the Hollywood district.  More details to come in September...

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HD Media Services is excited and proud to announce that we are the first company to offer professional and affordable 3D Blu-Ray disc authoring at a price of $995 per hour of material. This format is perfect for independent film-makers and companies looking to give their video that extra "WOW" factor.  Please contact us for more information!

We're definitely not in the hard drive business, so we welcome you to either send us your own hard drive or order one from a company like Amazon and have it shipped directly to us.  We can use practically any type of drive (USB, Firewire, SATA -- with enclosure or without).

Or if you don't want to go through the trouble, we offer Iomega hard drives for $69.95 (500GB), $99.95 (1TB) and $179.95 (2TB).  Iomega drives are great for consumer and prosumer projects, plus they come with a 3-year manufacturer warranty.

When considering a hard drive, keep the following in mind:

1.  Each hour of regular video will require 13GB of space / per hour (AVI or MOV files)
2.  Each hour of ProRes video will require anywhere from 30GB to 80GB of space / per hour
3.  MPEG-4 files do not require a hard drive as they are 2GB of space / per hour and can easily fit onto data DVDs.

From one blog to another!  Check out one of our customer's blog about our digitizing service...

http://wedoitthehardway.blogspot.com/2010/03/digitizing.html

Imagine viewing your precious memories with four times the clarity of a typical DVD.  Well the format is here, it is now affordable and called Blu-Ray!

The discs look similar, but there are some major differences:  DVDs can store about 4.4 gigabytes of data while Blu-Ray discs can store 25 gigabytes of data... allowing more room for higher resolution video.  DVDs have a resolution of 720x480, which is considered to be "standard definition."  On the other hand, Blu-Ray discs have a resolution of 1920x1080, or called "high definition."  Finally, Blu-Ray discs are more durable with a scratch-resistant coating.

When Blu-Ray disc players were first introduced, the cost was easily over $1,000.  Now we are seeing players for as low as $99 (and some refurbished players have been as low as $79).  Plus, these players allow you use other services, such as streaming videos from Netflix or YouTube, with a simple connection to the internet.  

Will your old camcorder or VHS tapes look better on Blu-Ray?  Most definitely!  At HD Media Services, we use special software that will extract more detail out of your old videos.  The process takes several hours and some heavy computer processing power, but the results are amazing.  Contact us if you are interested in viewing your memories in a whole new light!