Posted by Justin on 01/11/71 11:36

NYC XYZ wrote on [4 Jan 2006 12:27:44 -0800]:
> Justin wrote:
>>
>>
>> You don't burn DVDs, you produce them. Burning is what you do at home,
>> they are pressed in large numbers
>
> Thanks for pointing that out.
>
> And if these presses are anything like printing presses, then I say
> again that tacking on a extra fifty or so to a run of thousands costs
> very little, if anything at all, really, especially in this digital
> age.

Oh, certainly, costs per unit go down dramatically the more you produce.

>> if those 50 sell, what do they do, press 10 more?
>
> If those fifty sell, they'd probably increase the next batch of the
> title. Presumably they press thousands of discs at regular intervals,
> and how's one title different than any of the others that are being
> run? Remember, costs are really negligible at this scale: production
> costs, inventory costs, etc.

If those 50 take 5 years to sell they'd most likely not make a next
batch.

>> Different companies produce different product under different business
>> models. The Wings of Honneamise (I know I have spelt that incorrectly)
>
> Is that incorrect? Works for dvdpricesearch.com!

Well, maybe it is correct. Who knew!

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