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Arik Paran Improve Customer Support With Professional Video Production Services

One of the things that can set a company apart from others in this competitive economy is the way that particular company deals with customer support. Those businesses that are perceived to have better customer support for their technical products are usually the ones that come out on top because customers know they can rely on the business to provide help when it is needed. The recession also means that businesses are scrambling to provide increased consumer quality while decreasing overall cos… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on October 30, 2009 at 7:58am — No Comments

Arik Paran Improved Internal Communications Through Professional Video Production Services

Businesses today are facing new and more challenging demands due to increased problems with the economy and the fact that many consumers are spending less money on a regular basis. Competition for customers has become fierce, with business going to the companies that are seen as being able to outperform the others in service and employee knowledge. For the same reason, companies often have to institute rapid changes in policy and business procedures. If a process isn’t working, business executiv… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on October 8, 2009 at 4:02pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Photo Album Scanning Can Save Your Old, Faded Pictures

When it comes to reliving memories, the first place many people turn to is their stack of photo albums. These albums have been lovingly filled with images that capture a lifetime of experiences. Most people have these picture books stuffed with photos of everything from their wedding and honeymoon right up to birth of their first baby, their child's first day of school, and the birth of their grandchildren. One of the problems with many of these old albums, though, is that often the photos have… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on September 25, 2009 at 4:38am — No Comments

Arik Paran Home Movie and Video Preservation

The last couple of generations of Americans have grown up making and watching home movies. Everything has been captured on movie film and video from Baby's first steps to graduation, and from weddings and family reunions to holidays and the birth of the next generation. caught on film. And, how many times have you had to sit through Grandma's vacation movies? Americans are great at making and saving memories, but as time goes by, many of these treasured moments are being lost because they w
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Added by Arik Paran on August 24, 2009 at 3:58pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Home Movie Conversion To Digital Format

One of the great American family pastimes is making and watching home movies. Almost every family has a collection of treasured moments caught on film. Weddings, childrens first birthdays, holiday parties, family reunions, exciting vacations, and the first days of school are just some of the classic family experiences we love and save. Unfortunately, many of these historic moments in our lives were captured on a medium that has become outdated .

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Added by Arik Paran on August 20, 2009 at 4:48pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Custom Photobooks Make Great Gifts

When it comes to giving gifts to your friends and loved ones, choosing the perfect gift can be a very stressful process. With so many birthdays and holidays on today’s cultural calendar, it can be easy to run out of gift ideas. Many people succumb to the temptation of giving the easiest and most convenient present: the gift card (or worse, cash!). While all gifts are kind gestures, gift cards and cash don’t communicate the thoughtfulness, uniqueness, and sentimental value contained in the best g… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on July 30, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Save Your Memories With Photo, Slide, And Negative Scanning

If you’re like most people, you have probably accumulated a large collection of old photographs and negatives featuring the most memorable and happy moments of your life. Unfortunately, photos don’t last forever. As the years pass, they degrade: they get scratched, ripped, or torn, they suffer water damage, or the image simply fades. While you can’t reverse the forces of nature, there are ways to restore and revitalize your favorite photos.

Many people think the most economical

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Added by Arik Paran on July 17, 2009 at 1:39pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Revitalize Your Videos With Video Transfer Services

If you’re like most people, you probably have a small stockpile of years worth of video footage captured on video tape. Once a novel innovation, video tapes seem archaic by modern standards. The quality is low, you’re limited to linear fast forward or backward for navigation, and the tape itself takes up a lot of space. Tapes are also quite vulnerable to breaking and loss of data. However, just because your tapes are now out of date, don’t think that your countless hours worth of video are lost… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on June 29, 2009 at 6:29pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Save Your Memories - Transfer Your Film To A Digital Format

In the age of the digital revolution, many families have years of memories stored inconveniently in a pre-digital format. Birthdays, weddings, vacations, and various other joyous events were recorded on film medium for years. While the technology is now obsolete, the memories surely aren’t! Storing your video footage in film is both inconvenient and risky. Not only do you require special equipment on which to watch film, but your film is vulnerable to loss, destruction, and age related degradati… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on June 23, 2009 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Professional Video Production Services

In today’s competitive business climate, made even more challenging by the economic downturn, businesses must seek every advantage possible. One of the best ways to maintain a competitive edge and stay ahead of your rivals is to invest in your employees. Businesses with the most experienced, knowledgeable, effective, and, most importantly, well trained employees can often succeed where competitors with inferior staff will fail. Studies have proven that employees who receive extensive training ar… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on May 31, 2009 at 6:04am — No Comments

Arik Paran Digital Photo Keepsakes Make Great Gifts

President Obama has the remarkable ability to make headlines around the world with every move he makes. Between the First Dog, the First Kids, and the President’s famed basketball skills, the world can’t seem to get enough detail about the First Life. When Mr. Obama took a recent trip to England, he faced a sticky dilemma that boggles many heads of state: what to buy the queen? What gift can impress and satisfy such an august persona?

Mr. Obama, known for his deep familiarity with tech

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Added by Arik Paran on May 14, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Capture Your Life With Custom Photo Books

You squeeze your soon-to-be spouse’s hand tightly, anxiously awaiting the moment when you will exchange “I do’s.” You dig your toes into the soft, warm, silky Greek sand, watching the sun light fireworks across the evening sky as it sets of the Mediterranean. Your child’s eyes shine with glee, joyfully taking in the sights, sounds, and excitement of his first birthday party. Until recently, the happiest moments in our lives were preserved mostly in our memories. Thanks to incredible advances in… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on April 29, 2009 at 5:18pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Archive Your Important Media

Media is everywhere! People have media in their homes in the form of analog audio and video tapes, celluloid film, paper documents, and photos on albums and slides. Businesses have media in the form of presentations that have been made and stored on disks, paper reports, computer-generated reports, and paper documents. The problem with these forms of media is that they are subject to deterioration, and, in the case of home videos or movies, may not be viewable any more because the viewers no lon… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on April 14, 2009 at 5:03pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Use Video Transfer To Preserve Those Important Moments In Time

Are you like a lot of people - you have shelves and shelves of family videos accumulating dust and taking up lots of storage space in your den or basement? Wouldn't it be great if you could free up that space while at the same time preserving your memories? You can do just that through the use of video transfer services.

Twenty years ago, we all lugged around those big camcorders and followed Little Johnny's triumphs on the t-ball field

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Added by Arik Paran on March 26, 2009 at 3:51pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Preserve The Music Of Yesterday Through Audio Conversion

Forty years ago, people didn't have their music stored on CD's or on a computer or PDA. They couldn't download the newest songs right from the computer to the iPod or MP3 player (mostly because computers didn't exist in a PC version yet). People actually had to go to a record store and purchase a vinyl record album in order the hear the songs they enjoyed listening to on the radio. Record albums (or records, for short) were played on a record player that used a stylus that sat in the grooves of… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on March 17, 2009 at 2:31pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Photo, Slide, And Negative Scanning

For years, people have been taking film photos and film slides and storing the negatives when they wanted to remember family events. Even though digital cameras are all the rage now, in many cases, people are still using film as their primary way to save memories for later viewing. But, film presents a few problems in the way of storage and durability. Over time, film loses it's flexibility - it gets brittle and cracks or breaks. The film media also doesn't age very well: those beautiful, true-t… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on February 23, 2009 at 3:59pm — No Comments

Rita Chiodo Edelman video transfer

My Mom has old videos that she would like transferred to DVD. Do I need to have special equipment to transfer the VHS videos to DVD? Continue

Added by Rita Chiodo Edelman on February 23, 2009 at 1:31pm — 1 Comment

Arik Paran Film Transfer To Digital

Way back in the Dark Ages (actually about 30-50 years ago), film was the best media to use for capturing all of those memorable family events. Back in the day, Mom and Dad had movie cameras that took 8mm, 16mm, and Super8 movie films to record family happenings and those reels of home movies were watched on movie projectors. But, the problem with film of any type is that, over time, it gets brittle and breaks, and it fades and changes color over the years. Most people have boxes of old family

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Added by Arik Paran on February 9, 2009 at 4:43pm — No Comments

Arik Paran Antique Photos - Restore Those Treasured Pictures!

Many of us have old photos laying around the house and many of those treasured pictures haven't been treated very well over the years. We tend to lump them into a box with other pictures, store them downstairs in the basement, or even in a dresser drawer, hoping we'll someday find the time to put them in order. Even if they've been put into photos albums with loving care, the chemicals in the pages of the album can cause the pictures to turn colors or stain. How any times have you dragged out th… Continue

Added by Arik Paran on January 24, 2009 at 10:51am — No Comments

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