Our Services

We use our state-of-the-art equipments to author your DVD discs using DVD-R technology. DVD-R is the most widely accepted DVD format for playback. You can playback your video on either your computer with a DVD-ROM drive or the majority of standalone DVD players in your home entertainment system. Almost 95% of the standalone DVD players manufactured in past two years are capable of playing DVD-R discs. Please consult to your DVD player manual for DVD-R playback. In addition, we also complie a list of DVD players that have been reported for being able to play DVD-R discs. Please visit the DVD Players page.

Video Conversion Service
Our video conversion service helps you transferring your video from videotapes to DVD discs. We have two levels of services to suite your needs. The basic service is good for video archive, and the enhanced service is the choice for video album. Each DVD holds up to 2 hour of video at DVD quality*. Currently, we accept the following NTSC videotape formats:

Formats : VHS 8mm Hi8
D8 (Digital 8) miniDV  

Our basic service transfers a videotape straight to a DVD disc up to 2 hours without any adjustments. We capture video from your videotape, encode video/audio, and author it to a DVD disc. There will be a chapter marker on every 10-minute point of the video. Your DVD disc will auto-starts in DVD player. You can add standard interactive on-screen menus and extra chapter markers to your order at an extra cost.

Our enhanced service gives your more control and flexibility of how to make your DVD. The core package gives your 20 minutes of video, 2 video segments, and 5 custom chapter markers. You can pick video segments from same or different videotapes and merge them together, specify the locations of chapter markers. You can also add extra video minutes, video segments, chapter markers, and standard on-screen navigation menus at an extra cost.

The cost of conversion is calculated based on the length of your video and other add-on items. Please visit our Pricing page for pricing details.

Slideshow Service
For individuals, slideshow DVD is a convenient way to archive photos and share them with your friends and family. You can playback your photos automatically one after another and slideshow after slideshow. For business, slideshow DVD can be an invaluable marketing tool to promote your products. Our slideshow service puts your digital photos or PowerPoint presentation files on DVDs for playback. You can place up to 99 photos in one slideshow and up to 99 slideshows on one DVD. You can also add background music to your slideshows to dramatically enhance the viewing enjoyments. We accept the following types of files for slideshow creation.

Formats : .gif .jpg .psd
(Photoshop Files)
.ppt
(MS PowerPoint)
   

This service can put not only slideshows but also electronic form of product documentations, samples on the same DVD disc for distribution. It then can be played on regular DVD players as well as being read by your computers with a DVD-ROM drive. For the price of basic slideshow service, please visit Pricing page. For the creative use of slideshow/presentation, please contact us at dvdinfo@dsystems.com

Custom Authoring Service
Our custom authoring service is your ultimate DVD service. You can make your DVD in any way a DVD is allowed to do. You provide us required matertals such as video, audio, images, and others and specify how you like to make your DVD. We will put them together for you.





* The video quality of your DVD depends on the video quality of your source tapes. Your DVD will achieve the best result with digital tapes such as miniDV & Digital 8