Use video to create saleable products?

Captain

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I wonder whether room operators could make any money by increasing their use of fixed video recording equipment.

If I were playing in the weekly nickel and dime tournament at my local room and got to the finals for the first time, I might pay a few bucks for a CD of my final-round match as viewed by a fixed overhead video camera. If I got to play a name player in a little tournament at my local room, I might buy a CD of the match as a souvenir. If my APA team were playing a big match I might buy a CD of the match. If I were an intermediate player I might buy and study videos of my stroke.

A few rooms have webcams and quite a few rooms use video to monitor their tables, but I haven’t visited a room that uses fixed video recorders to produce saleable products. Just a thought...

AS
 
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Captain said:
I wonder whether room operators could make any money by increasing their use of fixed video recording equipment.

If I were playing in the weekly nickel and dime tournament at my local room and got to the finals for the first time, I might pay a few bucks for a CD of my final-round match as viewed by a fixed overhead video camera. If I got to play a name player in a little tournament at my local room, I might buy a CD of the match as a souvenir. If my APA team were playing a big match I might buy a CD of the match. If I were an intermediate player I might buy and study videos of my stroke.

A few rooms have webcams and quite a few rooms use video to monitor their tables, but I haven’t visited a room that uses fixed video recorders to produce saleable products. Just a thought...

AS

That's not a bad idea. Definitely the price of video cameras, production, converting to DVD or internet is getting lower and lower. Pool businesses and all businesses will find more uses for video in the not to distant future.

For little more than the cost of a well designed business card 10 years ago, any business can now produce an introductory video and have it available for easy viewing online.

I'm sure this will lead to a lot of creative video marketing use in coming years.

And it wouldn't be too hard to put cameras at tables and give the players a CD of their play after a session. The expense would not be very high, and will decrease if there is adequate demand.

But the power of video is its ability to reach a mass audience. I expect use of it will target audiences rather than individuals mostly.
 
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