Re: Final MRL#1 DVDs+CDs!

On 2008-06-30, Tassilo <grindjuggler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
when you produce them professional you pay 80cent for one, add 50 cent for
the cover...and thats a pro-dvd (I calculated with 100 pieces- more
getting cheaper)

Please forward me the details of the production house you have found
which will *press* (not burn, press) a run of 100 DVDs for 80Euros

I've made repeated attempts to find a company which will press glass
master DVDs for me, in quantities of less than 1000 units - and the
closest I've come is 500 units for substantially more than 80cents
a disk. (Especially when you include the mastering fee)

The only companies that duplicate disks in quantities that small, and
at that cost, use the same type of disks as Luke is using for this
project. The only difference is that they have a robot which loads
the disks into the duplicator.

If you have a lead on a company that will glass master and press a
DVD in small quantities at reasonable prices - I would seriously
*love* to hear of it. Seriously. 100% serious. Email me at
LP <at> lpbk [dot] net
I'm not being awkward - I'm genuinely interested as the DIY DVD-R [1]
approach is what eventually killed the www.trickswithhats.org/dvd
project - and if I could get disks pressed at a reasonable cost I
could reconsider and possibly re-publish.

Sorry Luke for hijacking your thread to rant at length about this,
but it irritates me when people who have never tried to put out
a DVD assume that it's a walk in the park.

-Paul
[1] For info "DIY DVD-R" involved a robotic, professional grade
duplication machine with 5 burn slots, and grade-A professional
DVD-R disks. The mere fact that they were DVD-R's made them
unplayable in some machines but not others and caused a world
of pain in terms of support.

That and I suck at being a businessman.
.

Relevant Pages

  • IDE controller performance
    ... I currently have 2 disks on one IDE channel and a dvd recorder as master ... I want to separate the disks and give them a channel each. ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
  • Re: CD content not re-read after CD is replaced with a duplicate (KB21
    ... > 1) I insert the master CD and I read all the files and dirs. ... > 2) I remove the master and I insert the duplicate CD. ... disks. ... -Software Consultant (Embedded systems and Real Time Controls) ...
    (microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel)
  • Re: MYDOS 128K
    ... disks to duplicate. ... versions that magically used extended memory without regard to ... I have used an extended memory sector copier lately, and this one was written in 1988: the "SECTORCOPY 1.5" off the Speedy System Disk ...
    (comp.sys.atari.8bit)
  • Re: Serious problem with Linux on an old PC
    ... Rescan for duplicate bad blocks... ... /dev/hda5 clean ... We generally found SCSI disks gave up about 5 years in.. ... IDE drives don;t generally do more than 3-5 years at best. ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)
  • Re: Serious problem with Linux on an old PC
    ... Rescan for duplicate bad blocks... ... /dev/hda5 clean ... We generally found SCSI disks gave up about 5 years in.. ...
    (comp.os.linux.setup)