I was thinking more a direct transfer. Any editing would involve other costs per hour. Jay On 7/2/05, Ed Gaidies <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jay... > As you know it can be a very time consuming effort to edit stuff to DVD. > Seems the customer always wants things cut out, so you basically have to > edit it back to VHS, for their approval before you burn. I used to have > the equipment to Dub tapes from Regular and Super8 to VHS and had a > minimal business with it. Since this VHS stuff is linear, and takes > Real-Time to dub it to digital..what do you expect to charge for a 1 > hour production. >=20 > Interesting concept...but I guess if you had a Professional System to do > it, and did enough of them, might be a good business venture. >=20 > I also used to do the PAL to NTSC conversion for people, since we have a > lot of German people here....But there again...and hour > Conversion...took an hour. >=20 > That wasn't too bad...since you just let the tapes run. >=20 > -Ed- >=20 > Tel-Tek Electronics > Ontario-Canada >=20 > teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx > teltek@xxxxxxxxx >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J. Knoll > Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 11:07 AM > To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: MY VCR PARTS ARE NOT FEELING THE LOVE! >=20 > I am going to invest in the equipment to transfer tapes to DVD. After > reading this the time will be coming soon where a little money can be > made in doing this, and I have been getting calls for tranfers now.=3D20 > Jay Jay's TV >=20 > On 7/2/05, Phil Bader <tjanphyl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A note: > > A customer of mine said he went to Best Buy (I think, or Circuit City) > > and they said they don't sell ANY VHS equipement anymore. NO VCRs at > all. > > My customer was alarmed. What am I going to do to watch all our > > collectible tapes? I felt like saying. You el-cheapos wanted cheap and > > stores found no money in them anymore si you "cheaped" your way out of > > VCRs altogether. NO one wanted to invest a few bucks keeping their > good > > heavy duty machines fixed "because Walmart has the same thing, only > for > > 39 bucks! I'm going there!"... > > So, go already. > > Maybe you will see people begging you to "restore" their units to > enjoy > > their tape collection. > > Phil > >=3D20 > > Philip Bader > > Jan Phyl TV Inc. 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