[meteorite-list] AD: Video Footage of our trip to Oman

[Rob Wesel]

When I was selling the Park Forest Newsreel DVD's they set me back $10 each, 
but DVD burners weren't common then.



Rob Wesel
http://www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly at bhil.com>
To: <cynapse at charter.net>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; <MeteorHntr at aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] AD: Video Footage of our trip to Oman


> Darren, Steve, List
>
>    DON'T use a sharpie!!  The solvents in conventional markers will damage 
> the disc initially and progressively.  There are special DVD markers 
> formulated
> to be safe, that are available.  Like, BestBuy has'em.
>    DVD production costs are paradoxical.  Unlike printing, where the cost 
> per copy goes down as the number of copies increase, the opposite is true 
> of
> DVD's.  Short-run production is vastly cheaper than professional long-run 
> production.
>    In any production run of less than 1000-1500 DVD's it is much cheaper 
> to use PC's with burners and pay somebody to feed them discs at minimum 
> wage than
> to use professional production machinery even if you owned the machinery 
> and could do it at cost.
>    In New York, there are 100's of little shops stuffed into basements, 
> apartments, storage warehouses even, pumping out DVD's on orders of 100 to 
> 1000
> copies at prices that no production company could ever match.  It's a 
> strange and counterintuitive phenomenon.
>
>
> Sterling
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Darren Garrison wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 00:28:33 -0400, MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:
>>
>> >Hello List,
>> >
>> > DVD labels, the dozens of bad prints onto the labels, the making of the 
>> > insert to the DVD holders, then printer running out of ink, yadda yadda 
>> > yadda.
>>
>> Not to mention shortening the lifetime and playability of the discs by 
>> putting on said labels.
>> Unless placed absoultely perfectly on the disc, a label can cause the 
>> disc to rattle around enough
>> to not play correctly (those discs spin really fast-- we're talking 
>> centrifuge fast) and the labels
>> do peel off, often taking the data layer of the disc with it.  If you 
>> have a printer that can print
>> directly on printable discs, great.  If you have a recorder with 
>> Lightscribe
>> http://www.lightscribe.com/, great.  Otherwise, use a Sharpie.
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