Posted by nobody special on 01/25/08 21:24

If you are only doing 50 or less copies per job, and overnight is ok,
the Bravo Primera Pro printer/duplicator with 2 drives, or a cousin
machine to that from Bravo's line is perfect for you, really, it is.

It will in my experience kick out 50 2-hour discs with printing and
QC check in about 40 minutes, unattended. Of course, if you want to
record the service in 4-hour mode and live with a bit of a quality
hit, you at least don't have to make a part 1 and part 2 pair of
discs, and the Bravo can make copies of 4-hour discs just as well...

What you might want to do is find a used one thru ebay, craigslist,
or Amazon.com, places like that, if expense is a concern. Some folks
buy the Bravo and decide they need much more capacity and speed so
they upgrade to a multidrive robot tower, but for an operation of your
size, this little breadbox-sized hummer is just right.

Same with the Panasonic DVD recorder, look for a used model DMR T3040,
this is what we use.

The T3040 also has a hard drive so you can record the service live to
hard disk right in the machine, edit it down a bit here and there with
some crude built-in chapter-controlling features it has, add titles
using the remote, finalize it, then it can make one-at-a-time copies
to DVD for you at about 8:1 speed, faster than real-time. It also has
time-slip abilities like a TIVO does.

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