Posted by Justin on 01/11/70 11:36

NYC XYZ wrote on [4 Jan 2006 13:26:13 -0800]:
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> Justin wrote:
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>> Oh, certainly, costs per unit go down dramatically the more you produce.
>
> Yes, but I'm not just saying that costs go down per title, but that
> they do for any given title, since it's all the same to the facility
> what's being turned out, right?

No, DVDs are pressed from a master and not printed from a press.

Most printing presses have to change film for each item, anyway

>> If those 50 take 5 years to sell they'd most likely not make a next
>> batch.
>
> But that's what I'm not getting -- if the cost is negligible to the
> point of being non-existent, why not? Again, the assumption here is
> that things operate like a paper press putting out business cards -- I
> can certainly throw in Jane and Mary at five hundred each for very
> little additonal charge, given that you're running Tom, Dick, and Harry
> for five thousand each.

Not anywhere near the same.

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