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From: dd2u@hudson.acc.virginia.edu (drucker david)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: COST OF PRESSING A VIDEODISC?
Message-ID: <1914@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 20 Aug 89 19:14:51 GMT
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Reply-To: dd2u@hudson.acc.Virginia.EDU (drucker david)
Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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In article <133200002@cdp> rrohwedder@cdp.UUCP writes:
>
>Thanks Jim and Kim.  Very helpful info.
>
>After you've got a "check disc" that you're happy with,
>can that be used as a master?  Say I want 100 copies of
>the same disc.  Any idea about costs of reproducing the
>same content over and over?
>
>---
>
>Rocky Rohwedder, Ph.D. 


Rocky,
    We have comp[leted our first master pressing this past spring. The cost
was app. $2100.00 for 80 copies.
    The procedure was to first get a check disk ($300.00) to check for
accuracy. Once this was done we sent in the master video tape on 1" to
Pioneer. They placed the information onto a master press (?) disk from
which they could make as many copies as we wanted. The cost of the
master press disk was around $1400. Eacg copy was $10.00 or so dollars.
    Once they had made the required number of disks, they destroy the master.
For another $900.00 or so they would store the master for a year incase we needed
more. I wish we had taken them up on this offer as we really would like
to have some more. To get them now we would have to have them make
another master at the $1400 mark.

    So in answer to your first question, no the check disk cannot be
used to make more copies. I hope this helps you a little bit.

David Drucker
Curry School of Education , University of Virginia
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