ITEM 1
FRANCHISOR AND ANY PARENTS,
PREDECESSORS AND AFFILIATES
A.
The
franchisor is called "franchisor" or "Home Video" and you
are called "you" or "your" or "franchisee" in
these documents. The name of the Franchisor is Home Video Franchise Corp.
("Home Video"). Home Video was incorporated on March 2, 2006 in the State
of New Jersey.
B. Home Video does business under
the name "Home Video."
C.
Home
Video''s principal place of business is located at 8148 Raven Rock Drive Indianapolis, Indiana 46256.
D.
Home
Video is a New Jersey corporation, which uses the calendar year as its fiscal
year.
E.
Home
Video offers franchises for video services profit centers. These profit centers
provide for their customers:
�
Video-to-DVD
transfers,
�
DVD
Authoring (creates a DVD with chapters, arranged chronologically or by event),
�
FamilyTIME�
videos (with appropriate music, titles, special effects and more into a 3- to
5-minute video),
�
Sports
Scholarship videos (in which parents put their student-athlete children on
videotape to send to colleges and universities for scholarship consideration),
�
Legal
Video Services (for local law offices, investigators, police departments and
insurance companies),
�
This
is your LifeTIME� video! (a 60- to 90-minute video involving interviews,
photos, movies, memorabilia, slides, etc.),
�
Video-to-Computer
File Conversion (which involves converting the customers'' videos into formats
suitable for computer and Internet distribution including Video to JPEG,
Quicktime, MPEG and Windows Media Player),
�
Power
Point Conversions (which involves the conversion of Power Point presentations
transferred to video),
�
DVD
and CD duplications,
�
Video
Tape Repair,
�
"You''re
the Producer" (in which you rent cameras and/or schedule crews for
customers),
�
"Back
In Time" RETRO Videos (which are very popular for class reunions),
�
Photo
Video Keepsakes (in which you simply capture them on video, add appropriate
music and titles, blend in a few special effects and you''ve created a very
moving and emotional product),
�
Video
Tape Duplication,
�
Video
Editing,
�
International
conversions (to convert your client''s videos into PAL, SECAM, or even NTSC
formats),
�
Audio
Tape Duplication,
�
Home
Movie Transfers,
�
Video
Production, in which you tape clients at your home studio or at their location,
�
Video
Prints in which you provide a picture of the people, places, and things that
get caught on video,
�
Format
conversions in which old formats are converted to new formats,
�
Savers
of the Family Archives in which your customer''s photographs, films, videos,
memorabilia are stored digitally on disk or l-Pod for easy viewing, for
insurance proof and even for off site for protection in a safety deposit box,
�
Arts,
Music, and Entertainment Scholarship videos, similar to the Sports Scholarship
videos,
�
Video
& DVD Language Translation,
�
Documentary
Style Corporate Video,
�
Video
Lifestories, in which you record a person describing their life and times, and
�
High
Concept Videos, which are very short, very contemporary mini-productions
involving a multi-screen, multi-layered video with information coming at the
viewer from many different angles.
As shown above, the franchise
provides services for individuals, schools, businesses, organizations,
governmental agencies and the general public.
The competition for a Home
Video franchise includes photography stores, duplicating centers, computer
stores and companies that provide transfers of film and videotape to DVDs.
F.
Home
Video is a corporation that was incorporated in March 2006 and does not have
prior business experience, predecessors or affiliates. It has not conducted
business or offered franchises in this or any other line or business.
G.
There
are no regulations specific to the industry in which the franchise business
operates. Only the normal rules and regulations that apply to regular
businesses apply to Home Video.
H.
Home
Video has no parent company.
