Using a well know high street photo developer for VHS to DVD transfer

[LASTOLITE]

I overheard a bloke talking and he mentioned that VHS, camcorder tapes ect you take into this store for transfer to DVD are sent to a Prison for inmates to do the transfer's - they called it an Academy for rehabilitation.

I have called the stores head office and they have confirmed this as fact and were quiet open about it.


Is this common knowledge? among TP'ers

 

[neil_g]

doesnt bother me if thats what youre asking. itd be muchly a "put media in device and press go" affair anyway.

 

[LASTOLITE]

doesnt bother me if thats what youre asking. itd be muchly a "put media in device and press go" affair anyway.

I dont think it is. They offer editing and chapter points at specific intervals or points in the edited home video. So I think it would have to be prisoners watching the movie in real time? Unless there is a machine that can do this? AFAIK a machine of this capability does not as yet exist.

 

[omens]

Do they have to watch the videos beginning to end?
Might transfer a few episodes of Knight Rider (although it's out on DVD, the boxset discs have issues either due to copyright or poor transfer).

 

[neil_g]

I dont think it is. They offer editing and chapter points at specific intervals or points in the edited home video. So I think it would have to be prisoners watching the movie in real time? Unless there is a machine that can do this? AFAIK a machine of this capability does not as yet exist.

without knowing what they use then i guess its hard to comment either way.

but still not worried, if what you say is true then someone is going to have to do it. be it a convicted shoplifter who is monitored and in a controlled environment (rehab is going to be low level offenders) or a shop assistant who could potentially make a copy unsupervised and take it home (worst case).

not that youre going to get your XXX home movies converted by a high street retailer.