Video footage preserves family moments that might otherwise be forgotten, like the day Grandpa wiped everyone's memory with a spy drug. Bring precious records to the digital age with today's Groupon: for $18, you get $40 worth of film digitization services from Solid Gold Memories.
Solid Gold Memories works to quickly and carefully encase ephemeral analog reminiscences in secure digital amber. Nostalgic videographers can convert their handiwork from a variety of formats—including VHS ($20/tape), Betamax (an additional $30), and Hi8—which, if left unpreserved, will gradually lose integrity and decrease in picture quality. After you ship Solid Gold to-be-transferred tapes, footage will be returned in 30 days or fewer on standard DVD or archive-quality gold DVDs (additional $8 each), which can last up to 300 years and make it possible to watch a child's piano recital two million times. For an additional $5, Solid Gold's video virtuosos can arrange each two-hour DVD in chapters and provide a basic navigation menu. In some cases, the shop's scholarly sawbones can salvage physically damaged tapes, and a variety of packing options ensure secure household chronicling.
This Groupon does not cover shipping costs.
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The Groupon Guide to: Surfing the Internet
Containing everything from the great works of literature to spoilers for the upcoming presidential election, the Internet can be a valuable resource—if you know how to use it. Use these tips to ensure a productive trip to cyberspace and back:
- Type the word surf into your computer's keyboard at anytime to access your Internet's web browser.
- If your computer is less than 10 years old, your browser must be voice navigated. Shout such things as "photo of a helicopter" or "birth parents?" and let the Internet do the rest.
- The Internet has more than 60 websites. Remember your favorites by "bookmarking" them (writing their names down on a bookmark you keep nailed to your computer).
- Surf safely. Not only is this practical advice, it's also the name of the web's official mascot, Surf Safely, the surfing coyote who reminds children not to burn down the Internet.
- Unplug and unwind. Using the Internet for more than four minutes a day will cause hair to grow uncontrollably from your mouth.
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