European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Video mania by Randolph right associated Pressa woman whose husband was addicted to vide Casselle movies had a dear John Teller videotaped and left it or him on her Way out out of the door. Another had her husband s funeral taped with instructions thai in show the casket being lowered Inlo i he ground in slow motion to the theme music irom i he movie chariots of fir6, people want she dam dest things videotaped Shuse Days says Stuart Zizak. Who started video data services five years ago in pills Ord a y., a Rochester suburb. Dizak Row has sold 144 franchises for video production companies in the United Stales and Canada he s Selling up franchises in Thailand and Singapore and plans to expand into Japan and Europe this summer. The company s Swift Rise is one indication of the growing Lasc Nalion americans have Tor video an Industry Hal Nas skyrocketed in the 1980s and is expected to have factory sales of $13.7 billion 1his year when we went into this business i Neve expected to have anywhere near the growth rate that we have had. But 1 Ihrk most people in the whole video Field will say i  says. Two out of every Elva Homes in Tho United Stales now have at least one  recorder according to Allan Schlosser. A spokesman Tor the electronic industries association a manufacturer s Trade group. Var sales have increased from 1.3 million in 1301 to 3 2 minion last year Schlosser says. The most recent phenomenon is Tho camcorder which is a lightweight combination video camera and recorder that debuted in 1964 and i store shelves a year later. Schlosser says. In 19ils, camcorder sales were 517.000. In 1986, sales reached 1.2 million and i his year they Ere expected to hit 1.5 million Schlosser says. Dizak 43, tried to anticipate the Market Boom in 1980 when to opened a video equipment and tape rental store in Sarasota Fla. However within six months he store lost $100.000. The Only Good thing about the Sarasota escapade is Hal we were having certain people primarily realtors and attorneys coming in and asking us to make videotapes iof them Dizak says. At first we refused because Al that time nobody had heard of  but because business was slow Dizak a former army photographer  the videotaping and lie Idoa for a National company was planted he left Sarasola and returned to upstate new York to gel started. Zizak was born and raised in Buffalo and Erma Bombeck Stuart Dizak founder of video data services has Sola 144 franchise in the . And Canada. Spent 10 years in Rochester Selling copiers before his Brief stint in Florida. For $13,950. A person can get a franchise that includes training equipment a territory and some help with marketing and advertising. A franchise owner in Flo Anoke a a former Pel shop owner used his video equipment to Leach a Parrot 1o talk. He recorded the Lapes and sold $50,000 Worth of them within two months simply by adv editing in Pel magazines Dizak says. He was very Clever Dizak says. To had two tapes. The Lisl taught the Bird some words and came with a b s. Bachelor of sentence degree. The second one came with an ms., master of  a franchise in Athens ga., has broken new ground by videotaping childbirth he says Dizak recalls buying his first vide Casselle recorder in 1976 for $1,400 when they were considered the ultimate in High Lech gadgets. He says two thirds of the franchises which pay a one time $500 Royalty fee to him in addition to the the world is so beset with problems i am reluctant to locus on a new one but we re All compassionate adults so Here goes. Domestic animals Are bored. For the most part the majority of household Pels Are unemployed have no appointments scheduled no parties to attend and no responsibilities once they gel up Silt a fico. Cat their breakfast and lick their underside it s downhill. Their lives Are basically the pits they can be digging in a owe bed a mile away and when their owner Calls them they break four legs to got Back Only la hear i just wanted to know where you were they hang around under the Kitchen table of 15 or 20 years waiting Lor something to drop or press their noses against the door Tot hours until someone figures they want logo out to gel a car ride they either have to have a Hysterectomy or Start scratching vigorously. They never know whom they re supposed to bark at and whom they re supposed to lick. We had a dog once whose Only unction was to bile thighs and sleep every time the Doorbell rang to would beat us to the door and get in position to nip the leg of anyone standing in arc. That accomplished to Well Back to bed. But alter a while even that was t any Tun anymore people might Sil around and say so what everyone s bored it in weren t for the fact Hal animals in the wild have found a solution to their problem. They Are getting High to relieve stress and boredom Llamas in Peru and Koala bears in Australia get zonked eating coca leaves Hal contain cocaine Grasshoppers thai eat wild marijuana leaves jump abnormally High. Elephants seek fermented Ripe fruit and Hae Only to look out my window and see Drunken �13.950, have sales of belter than $50,000 a year. Most of their business comes from videotaping weddings Legal testimony re creations of accidents Job interviews and real estate. He estimates thai half of All weddings in suburban areas of the country Are being videotaped and the use of expert testimony presented in court on a Var is growing. Will couples of the future who want just one More look at their wedding pictures reach for a videotape will Job applicants Send videotapes instead of resumes will lawyers carry briefcases in one hand and pc rain the other probably not Diak says i think there will always be room for both whether it be photographs or videotapes video cameras or court reporters he says. For whal it s Worth though we be found that people who have both photographs and videotape of their wedding almost always get More use out of the videotape. It s entertainment. The photographs ate More like  Birds by the hundreds nipping Al fermented honeysuckle. It s not a pretty sight. Studies have shown thai animals escape much the same Way some humans do when icy have nothing to do. I read where a psychologist Al Urcla actually created a singles bar for research rats Complete with a recreational area imitating a Park and a lounge where the rats can drink water or an alcohol solution. Over a period of eight or nine months a Large percentage of the rats opted for the alcohol. They became very depressed. It was suggested that Domestic Pels should try to Lill their lives with meaning and purpose. So All of you dogs and cats and Birds out there who Are dumping and trashing on this column. I beg you to Knock Over a garbage can fetch a shoe Lake up Ballet Chase a Ball under the sofa ring a Bell stage a Baik of gel a Job or join the service but do something Don t Lei i Herald win Page 16 the stars and stripes monday May 4.1987