Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 01/11/85 11:36

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 21:34:30 GMT, Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> Gave
us:

>NYC XYZ wrote on [4 Jan 2006 13:26:13 -0800]:
>>
>> Justin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.


He should think "Album". Albeit clean room, laminated album!

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