How feasible is it to do something like backing up people's home movies for them in 2025 for cash on the side? I figured it would make for a decent passive business, just put the tape in and back it up.

I bought a Domesday Duplicator to back up concert laserdiscs, and now it's just doing nothing.

Are you gonna put them onto DVDs or like a cloud storage or something? I can see this working if you:
>offered a few options (modern hard copies on blueray or dvd, cloud storage on Google/iCloud, all onto a flash drive)
>target non-technical users with non-technical ads IE fliers in a neighborhood, library, community center, places where non-technical older people go
>no idea how to price this
>tech support will be part of your customer service appeal and it will be suffering
Maybe locking down a couple church families and doing this would give you word of mouth business but you'd only get the most non-technical people ever since anyone else would just buy their own device.

I had to look up what a Domesday Duplicator was and it seems like a high quality solution that should work universally if you have the gear to play whatever I guess, you could probably advertise quality preservation to lure in 'tech enthusiast' dad types who don't have time to do it themselves but want it done all fancy and are easily wooed by performance numbers.

>>60743746
Honestly, if the target is old people, cloud storage, flash drives and blu-rays may be out of the question. Still, should ask if they have the ability to do such things. It would likely be DVD or bust, and put the files on a flash drive if they have younger family members.

>>60743814
Yeah depending on how old, middle aged... well shit I guess my parents are old now, people in their 60s both fear 'the cloud' (in an uninformed way) but also want their files 'on their phone' 'so I can send them' and maybe also 'on my computer too' and what they're really asking for is for it to show up in Google Photos or whatever the iOS stuff is.

I for one am happy the data beast will never absorb my baby pictures and I ain't digitizing none of it for my parents, but we're talking business here.

>>60743845
Yea, my mom refuses to learn anything. It took until she couldn't get VHS tapes anymore before she went to DVD. Now she watches DVDs on a 4K TV.

While I have an aunt who bought an Apple II in the 80s and taught herself programming to make a program to help with knitting patterns.