The $1,500 Projector

My family, like many of yours, invested into cameras and projectors, and if you're like me, you have all those old movies or slides of growing up. Birthdays, holidays, vacations, backyard fun, it's all there preserved on film, in a box, in a closet. And likely you can't play them anymore because the projector is either missing or broken, or you can't figure out how to use it.  That's why we at Advent Media, Inc. offer transfer services to convert that old legacy film to digital files that can be played on all your modern devices.

One day, out of a movie film box from a customer's collection I found ad for a "new" projector by Kodak in 1959. Check it out:

Only $167.50!

But wait, that was 1959.  I pulled out the inflation calculator.  In 2019 dollars that's the equivalent of $1,463.19!  The $1,500 projector!  That doesn't include screen (but you could project on a screen up to 5 feet wide - with the lights off). In anyone's book, that's a lot of money - just for occasional playback.  

Then there were cameras, light bars, splicers and countless rolls of film and processing required to do what we can do with a touch of a button on our phones. That was a huge investment to create what's now in a box in the closet, attic or basement.

Of course if you grew up in the late 80s thru the early 00's, your family history is likely on videotapes that are also in a closet somewhere. Since VCRs aren't made anymore, the means to play those are getting harder to find.

I have real respect for our parents - or grandparents - who spent a lot of money to save a glimpse of history for our families for us. Don't you think it's a good idea to preserve those images for your future generations?  Call us to preserve your legacy media and make it viewable - and sharable - again.

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(BTW, on eBay you can find this very model of projector between $30-80. Talk about a deal!)

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