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A note from our founders:
HomeMovie.Com was started in 1999 when founders
John Larsen and Lars Krumme were tasked with
preserving and managing each of their family's
vast collection of history on videotape. At the
time, the two entrepreneurs both had young
children and wives who loved to catch their
every move with the videocamera.
We found most existing solutions at the time
were (and still are) lacking in the features and
simplicity we needed to easily catalogue our
video history. We didn't just want to come up
with some archiving solution that still kept the
video locked away. We wanted to easily capture,
manage, edit and share this video as well and
not spend a fortune of time and money doing it.
We were ultimately unable to find a solution
that met our own needs, and decided to set out
to create our own. John had some extra time and
money on his hands, having just successfully
built and sold his prior business in the gaming
industry. Lars left the day-to-day management of
his other streaming media company in the capable
hands of his two other partners. Together, we
set out on the journey that has brought us to
Afiniti.
We figured out quickly why the technology didn't
exist -- video was extremely difficult to deal
with! Between all of the different tape formats,
devices, codecs, encoders, players and
compatibility issues, there was just no easy way
to edit and share your video. We tackled all of
these issues one-by-one, first building out our
DVD production facility, and then extending our
system to the Internet and your desktop.
Along the way, we’ve probably spent too much
money and too many long nights programming and
debating how we would work with video. We’ve
seen new video formats and players pop-up, along
with the next round of video-sharing companies
that just don’t seem to get that life doesn’t
happen in 2-minute segments. We've successfully
preserved and shared hundreds of thousands of
our customers family memories on DVD and over
the Internet. We’ve added quality people
(including our new President, Steve Smallman,
who shares our vision – see below) that we hope
can take our ideas and technology to the
millions of parents that have video just like
us.
Packed with features and easy to use, we are now
making Afiniti available to you! We hope that
you find it as enjoyable as our families do. Be
careful, though, or you might find yourself
actually watching your home videos!
Enjoy!
John Larsen & Lars Krumme
co-founders, HomeMovie.Com
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