DVD burner farm

[Taavi Burns]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:07:29 -0700, Adil Kodian <akodian-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> One more thing of interest is that when you 'burn' a DVD it isnt really a
> DVD as you know it. It is a DVD-R with data or video on it. If youre

And that's "not a DVD" how?  It's not a pressed DVD for sure, but it sure still
is a DVD.

> interested in creating mass market 'video' DVDs then DVD-Rs are not the way

"Video DVD"s are less different from any other DVD than Audio CDs/Video CDs
are from Data CDs (which is VERY).

> to go - youll have customers complain that they cant view the movie in all
> players (since they are not using computers). Also - there is no way to

You'll have customers complain anyway.  If you burn to DVD+Rs, pretty much
anyone with a Macintosh will be unable to read it.  It's a function of the drive
firmware more than anything.

> write the universal dvd area code as DVD-Rs cannot be written at that disk
> location. Some players may not function without that set. To commercially

Probably so.

> make video-dvds the best option is to create a master and quickly punch out
> as many copies as you need - but this isnt a basement operation - you need a
> factory.

Yup.

> This wont work on dual layer disks - but you dont have to worry,

Bullshit.  See below.

> AFAIK no dvd player supports a dual layer disk anyway (except a few really
> high end ones - but then there are no movie releases on dual layer disk)

More bullshit.  Fantasia 2000 (one of the first really popular DVDs)
was a dual-layer
DVD. Guess what: it came out a good 5 years ago.  DVDs were designed from day
1 to be dual layer (and double sided).  Each layer contains 4.7GB;
each dual-layer
side can therefore contain about 9GB, for a total of 18GB on both
sides of a dual-layer
disc.  Go look in your DVD movie library.  A good number of them will
very clearly
state "This is a dual-layer disc."

Dual-layer BURNERS and BLANKS have only just become available.  Pretty much
any DVD burner you get as of now will be a dual-layer burner, but the
blanks are still
around $20/ea (versus closer to $20 for 50 for the single-layer blanks).

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