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May 24, 2004, 12:15 PM
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: I am thinking of getting into duplication business and many salespeople are trying to sell tape duplication equipment. My question is: With DVDs taking over the world is it worth getting tape duplication equipment? And what type I sould go with? Any thoughts?!
: Greg B.
Greg: While VHS continues to decline, it's far from dead.
My old video business reports that approximately 70 percent
of their duplication work is tape -30 percent DVD and CD,
although that dropped from 80 percent last year. So my
advice is always to pick up a few decks, a good DA and
a source deck and get into VHS duping.
As far as type of decks, you can really get by with
less expensive decks, although you really need stereo
sound, 4/head machines. I like to use matching
manufacturer/model decks simply because you can run
a bunch off the same wireless remote. There's no
sense in getting fancy consumer decks with a lot of
features you'll never need; I personally like
Panasonic's prosumer decks, which run around $80
each.
I think if you look in the Video U library, there's
a lengthy article on the duplication business that
I wrote awhile back...that should help you with the
tape equipment questions...
Regards,
Steve
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