Here is what we do. We have a Series 2 Tivo in the home. When we burn the home movies to DVD, we also can scan them in into the format that Tivo reads. They are kept on our home computer. Whenever we want to call them up and watch them, we simply transfer them using the Tivo menu and the Tivo to go software, put them on the Tivo, and watch them on the big screen. Voila... This makes it easy and we watch them more than we used to before when you had to fumble with DVDs and so on. They are always there in your Tivo directory and you can call them up to watch in just a few minutes.

Funny you should ask...

I set up my two clients (different rooms) to cycle through photos (different sub-directories of \\Photos)this week, along with my Kodak "frame". My (grown) kids hauled out their laptops and got them running on other sets of photos. One had brought a bunch of home videos on a DVD -- put those into \\Videos and got them running, too! Dug out a couple video cables and used the TV sets for displays. We're all migrating between rooms and talking about past memories!

It's been two fantastic days so far, with 2.5 more to go before they all leave!

(And I think that HP just sold 2 more MSS units, too! A couple of them are watching to see if there will be holiday specials to get the MSS price even lower than that $299 reported elsewhere!)

...JohnBick

Lately I just took about 150 pics and had Picasa turn them into a movie. They were wedding photos and it made turning them into a video very easy. I have also used Animoto to do the same thing with a music video.
Both work great but are very different in their outputs. It all depends on what you are wanting for the final output.
Also Windows Movie Maker can create a pretty nice video from photos and it is free.

Have a Sansa device or MP3 player, then check out The latest!
Follow Me on Twitter

We have an old style video camera that has tapes that fit inside a VHS. Yes, we need to move up to 2008. Just showed the kids one two days ago when they were just 3 and 8months. Luckily, we still have a TV/VCR combo working.

What comes to mind for me was about 15 years ago. Back then I used to teach scuba diving in my spare time. We used to entertain our classes by showing off-the-wall movies like Airplane! just to keep the students laughing. Well one afternoon I decided to throw them for a loop. I set up the VCR before class, set out the Airplane! video sleeve, and inserted a tape of underwater video that I, and a couple of other instructors, shot of some of our students. It was hilarious!

i am in the learning curve.

The last time my family watched home movies was three years ago. We had everyone in the family bring over the videos they had and we had a home movie marathon on Christmas. They are all on VHS tapes so we had to dig out the VCR and hook it up. It's a big pain. We need to copy them onto DVDs but haven't gotten around to it yet. They did show some embarrassing things. They showed my brother picking his nose and then licking his fingers. I have nothing on him though because they showed me digging a weggie out of my butt. I was only 4 years old so I didn't know any better.

I don't have a camcorder and have not played with home video.

I haven't watched (my Dad's VHS ) home videos in years. Been even longer for the 8mm.

colected photosfrom photo albums from family and from friends throughHMS website. After puting it all together I made a video

The last time we watched home movies was a couple of years ago with family and they were of our vacation down the beach and a film my son did for his English class. It's a very funny film acting out several literary works they were studying and my husband helped and starred and they all took turns wearing the wig and apron in the female parts. Just love it. We didn't have a tv at the time that was easy enough to watch it on, but we recently got one so we'll definitely have to watch them on the big screen versus just on the camcorder viewscreen. Thank you for the contest and for reminding me that it's time to watch them again.

I patched together some video footage with some free software I found on the internet.

The funny thing about home movies is that we really don't watch them frequently. Having "core" digital footage in a central location, with the right editing software, it becomes easier for everyone in the family to add clips until you have a complete family library.

Taking your average home movie, and breaking it up into smaller, separate segments allows other family editors to add their own segments or recombine the same old home movie into something new.

It also helps to have all these files on the WHS since families seem to live so far apart from one another anymore. Makes it easy to share, and doesn't keep family movies limited only to showing once or twice a year.