Re: Guy from "Sopranos" country, USA, needs a favor.

"smitten" <pixsnap@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hope this is the right group...and I'm not intruding.

I have a VHS tape of a program that played on "Today with Des and Mel"
on Granada TV in January . The hosts of the show joked around with a
novelty product that we sell primarily in the States, though a handful
wind up in the UK and on the continent. www.smitten.com

It would cost about 100 dollars to run from PAL to NTSC and burn a CD
of the small section that applies to our product. I'd be happy to mail
the VHS tape to somebody who could burn an MPEG-2 of the reference to
our product, mail us the disk and toss out the tape. If interested,
I'll ship you the tape along with a check for $10, plus with a couple
of our Smitten mittens.

Cheers,
Gene in New Jersey


Gene,

A US dollar cheque (this is a UK NG ;-) ) is as much use to us as a
chocolate tea pot. We use UK pounds sterling and the costs of banking a
dollar cheque would be way over the $10.00 face value.

I would suggest that you ask around friends and relatives who might know
someone with a dual standard video recorder. They're quite common over here
(my very cheap model does this) and have dropped in price so much that
they're probably common over there now. This allows you to play your PAL
tape and get NTSC output.

Next you find someone with a TV-capture card, again these are cheap and
common over here. They will be able to then cut you a DVD.

Alternatively, you might try e-mailing the program producers and asking for
a DVD of the show. They might be able to oblige, especially since it was
your product they were discussing. Of course you might be wanting to use
this as advertising, contrary to their copyright, but then you wouldn't be
asking the nice NG readers to help you break the law would you ;-).

Paul DS


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