DVD burner farm

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, jim ruxton wrote:
> Even if that is true I want to be able to quickly pump out the DVDs and
> probably don't have time to burn a master...

What sort of production volume are you looking at?  The stamping processes
used in commercial production of CDs and DVDs are *much* cheaper than any
burning process... provided you are buying hundreds or thousands of copies.
(And provided you're willing to deal with a factory; this is not something
you can do in your basement.)

Those processes can also do things you *cannot* do with burning, like
producing honest-to-God DVDs (not DVD-Rs or DVD+Rs).  The differences go
deeper than just the physical details of the disks; for example, if I
recall correctly, you cannot burn a DVD which has region codes or the
commercial-DVD encryption, because the "keys" region of the disk is
unwritable (all zeros) in all the consumer-priced burnable formats. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml