VSI was set up in 1989 by Managing Director, Norman Dawood, and has been privately owned ever since. Norman Dawood is the son of
N. J. Dawood, the first translator of the Koran and the
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights into
modern English. VSI offers dubbing and subtitling and works closely with N. J. Dawood's translation company Aradco, based under the same roof. VSI was the first Western company offering electronic subtitling in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. ==Branches==