In today's world more and more people are concerned about losing their job to downsizing or company closings. For this reason many are looking for a way to start their own business working from home. One such business that would be relatively easy to start and inexpensive to operate is a VHS to DVD service.
Almost everyone has a collection of their own home movies created with their camcorder and recorded on VHS tapes lying around in a closet or attic. In addition, many people have vast collections of movies that were purchased on VHS.
Now that VHS is an obsolete technology, it is becoming more and more difficult to locate working VCRs and video cassette players (VCPs). Additionally, the content stored on VHS tapes is magnetic in nature and subject to easy erasure if improperly stored. Excessive heat can actually destroy the tapes.
Because of these reasons, more and more people are seeking ways to convert their VHS collections to DVDs. Aside from the fact DVDs take up considerably less space, they are a far more durable media and are capable of holding a large amount of data.
Starting your own VHS to DVD service is a simple matter. The things that you will require are a working VCR/VCP, a DVD recorder, and appropriate cables to connect the two. This will provide with an extremely rapid means of copying the content of VHS tapes to DVD. However, it may be limited in scope by copy protection measures as far as copying movies.
If one desires to add copying purchased movies from VHS to DVD as a service, one will probably require a computer, a working VCR/VCP, a video capture card, and video editing and compression software that will be used to transfer the data onto a DVD.
One should practice making a couple of DVDs at least of one's own before attempting to provide this as a paid service. After all, one would not want to take a chance on losing or destroying someone's valuable home movies and personal memories.
Once one has become familiar with the equipment and any software requirements, it should not be difficult to find clients for his/her new VHS to DVD service. They are all around in every location one can visit.
It is important to note that making copies of purchased movies could be construed as copyright infringement unless one exercises caution and ensures that only one copy is made from one tape to one DVD and the original is kept for archival purposes.
