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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/07/06 23:05
In article <1136393739.976671.319580@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
NYC XYZ <jack_foreigner@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Invid Fan wrote:
>>
>> But it also doesn't make them any money, relatively speaking. The
>> per-disk cost of burning 50 copies is a lot more then bulk runs of
>> 500,000, so why bother?
>
>If burning DVDs is anything like printing up business cards and
>envelopes, I can tell you that if you order a print run of 200
>different cards at 10 M ("M" for "mille," or a thousand) each, it's not
>much more, if anything at all, to have an extra six or so cards at only
>1M each.
>
>> However, if you think there is money to be made
>> then this would be a good idea for a startup business. Have studios
>> forward their orders for out of print titles to you, along with a copy
>> of the master, and custom make new disks.
>Which is why I have to agree with the other poster that it's probably a
>matter of legal rights -- of which situation I'm reminded by your
>suggestion, because the studios surely would not license such rights
>(infringement issues, for one thing).
>Besides, it's still cheaper for them to keep fifty or so discs around
>than for any one else to start up a whole business, even without a
>storefront and a staff of just one.
While not DVDs - there is one electronics retailer who has a run
of products made that they will expect to last in their stores for
three years. They found that having large huge runs and then
storing for three years was cheaper than having smaller production
runs every few months.
The downside is that there were times when something they made was
very good - the word got out - and the entire stock was gone in
under 6 months.
That company is Radio Shack. They had one portable CD player a few
years ago that had an SPDIF output as standar. The wrod got out
when 'the shack' had a sale on them, and withing a few months there
were none to be had anywhere. That also happened with some
speakers they had made for them by an outside company that were
fairly low priced and the hoped for 3-year supply was gone in 6
months.
If on the DVD world the original disk production was not large - as
many specialty disks often are - then it may not be econmically
smart to have a short run to make up for the amount of requests
after the original release.
As there is more and more consolidation of compnanies I notice that
certain items and brands disappear. If one company buys another
and now they have two competing products - they will usually drop
one.
Nestle does that a lot in the food business. The end result is
that the consumer has fewer choices.
Bill
the audio community and the Shack had a sale on them
--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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