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

From: Rob Wesel <nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 5 01:36:04 2005
Message-ID: <006701c56990$756b2390$998caa43_at_robewcufk0z2s3>

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@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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