In the autumn of 2024, I brought three projects to EverPresent in Newton: 1. Two S-VHS cassettes of a 1992 wedding video, which I asked to have transferred to digital and put onto thumb drive and DVD 2. Three short Super8 film reels, which I asked to be transferred to digital and have four specified titles inserted 3. One ScanCafe DVD containing an hour of digitized home movies, which I asked to have duplicated onto thumb drive and DVD for further distribution within my family At Newton, the EverPresent receptionist accommodated me in a businesslike manner. Much to my surprise, however, she informed me that they do not insert titles and that they cannot copy my ScanCafe DVD onto distribution DVDs. When I picked up the finished work, I discovered that the single thumb drive containing project #2 happened also to contain a spurious copy of project #1. No harm done, but gee whiz. It gets worse. When I viewed the project #1 digital transfer (which had been sourced from S-VHS cassettes), I was dismayed by egregious vertical-sync instability. I declare that this flutter came from EverPresent’s tape deck; those S-VHS cassettes have always played stably on my personal Panasonic AG-1970 tape deck, and they still do. That vertical-sync flutter completely ruined the transfer. Sadly, I now choose to not distribute project #1 to any intended recipient in the family. Another disappointment pertains to our attempted use of the EverPresent website. We wanted to learn how to get our movies distributed to geographically distant family members. We used the link sent to us by EverPresent; but once we set up an account, we couldn’t figure out how to proceed from there: the EverPresent web pages proved too wordy and very short of useful information. One family member – known for his professional software expertise – tried to go to the EverPresent site directly from Google but could never find a way to log in. He always had to resort to the link which had been sent to us by EverPresent. I had been kindly told that if I brought my laptop with me to Newton when picking up the products, the use of the EverPresent website would be demonstrated for me. So I did bring it, and I indeed did see the EverPresent wi-fi icon on my screen. But the receptionist told me that no demonstration would be possible because their wi-fi was not working. We were eventually consoled at home when we successfully downloaded digital video to our laptops from the thumb drive delivered for project #3. The same might also be said for project #2 except that we do miss the much-needed transitional titles. At least that ended our continuing nightmare with the EverPresent website. -Paul Gill