[David Lindon]

The idea sprung into my head while I was transfering some old home movies onto DVD from VHS through my computer if you could offer this as a business service. People might have old VHS videos or cassette tapes that they would like put onto DVDs and CDs. Anyone think this would get any custom? The only problem I can see is poeple might not be that willing to mail off treasured family wedding videos etc. Thoughts?

[akula]

yep, got a shop next door

they offer to "burn anything on dvd"

they don't seem too sucessful. people are too lazy to do this.

this would only work well on an industrial scale.

take a law firm, they have literally millions of documents in their basement. all of these should be converted to digital because a) saves space, rent is expensive and b) they have to have back up or they'll get sued for negligence and lose their reputation.

trust me, no $500/hr lawyer is gonna sit there archiving contracts/deeds on DVDs, but somebody's gotta

do 5 jobs to burn a law firm archive on dvd and you'll be set.

[NeeJam]

Originally Posted by akula

yep, got a shop next door

they offer to "burn anything on dvd"

they don't seem too sucessful. people are too lazy to do this.

this would only work well on an industrial scale.

take a law firm, they have literally millions of documents in their basement. all of these should be converted to digital because a) saves space, rent is expensive and b) they have to have back up or they'll get sued for negligence and lose their reputation.

trust me, no $500/hr lawyer is gonna sit there archiving contracts/deeds on DVDs, but homebody's gotta

do 5 jobs to burn a law firm archive on dvd and you'll be set.

akula has a very good point there, you definatley need to do this project ot have any kind of success on a large scale.

[toptemp]

Originally Posted by David Lindon

The idea sprung into my head while I was transfering some old home movies onto DVD from VHS through my computer if you could offer this as a business service. People might have old VHS videos or cassette tapes that they would like put onto DVDs and CDs. Anyone think this would get any custom? The only problem I can see is poeple might not be that willing to mail off treasured family wedding videos etc. Thoughts?

Among other things, this isn't sustainable and given the time and costs involved in doing so with no future harvestation in sight or exit plan, you could end up in a dead end.

[mgxsolutions]

Perhaps, it is just my area, but there are 2 stores that are in my area that already offer this service. They are both camera shops. There used to be a shop that offered this, and only this, service, but they were closed down in less than a year.

I like the idea, but it seems as though no one else seems to care for the idea. I do know someone who went to do this but was quoted $200 to convert 1 VHS in SP mode.

[NeeJam]

Originally Posted by David Lindon

The idea sprung into my head while I was transfering some old home movies onto DVD from VHS through my computer if you could offer this as a business service. People might have old VHS videos or cassette tapes that they would like put onto DVDs and CDs. Anyone think this would get any custom? The only problem I can see is poeple might not be that willing to mail off treasured family wedding videos etc. Thoughts?

Just reminded me of something when i was flicking through the channels a couple of weeeks ago. it was on QVC the UK version, but they was offerin you to buy a program that converted vhs onto your pc where you can burn onto DVD's. ill find the link for you.

[NeeJam]

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukgasp/frameset...&Submit=Search

Here is the link(above) for the vhs to dvd which i saw on qvc uk a few weeks ago, it just came into my head after re-reading the post.