DVD Copycat is proud to announce the release of a new CD-R that is pure silver on the bottom. These burnable CD-Rs look just like replicated CDs that you buy in music stores. Now you can get truly professional looking CDs for your next gig at volumes as low as 25 pcs.
For more information about these CDs, give us a call or look us up on the web.
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CD Duplication Services
Occasionally we receive requests to burn 1-5 DVDs for some of our clients. This is usually a pretty expensive proposition since we have to setup art and a duplicator for just a few discs.
If you would like to save some money and do the DVD Duplication yourself, there are some steps that will result in a good duplication.
Step 1: is to make sure you have a good quality DVD burner. If you have purchased a DVD burner that is a no-name brand, you may be jeopardizing a good burn. You do get what you pay for in burners. A good avenue would be to locate a technical consumer review of DVD burners. The Internet has a long list of available research on burners.
Step 2: is to make sure you use good quality media. Inferior media will result in poor results. Once again you get what you pay for, Sony, Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden all make a reliable burnable DVD.
Step 3: Make sure you leave your computer alone while burning your DVD. If you are using other programs while your DVD is burning, this may cause a problem with the burn.
Step 4: Verify your burn! Most burning software programs have a check box that will have the DVD read after the burn and compared to the original disc image. If they match up ok, the software will tell you that your DVD has been verified and it is a good disc.
If you need any more information on manufacturing optical media, Please contact us at:
415-929-1581
1-866-210-8768
DVD Copycat, Inc.
745 Fillmore, #101
San Francisco, CA 94117
Over the past year we have seen the cost of blank Blu-ray disc media come down pretty substantially. Within the last year, BD-R(burnable blu-ray) media costs have come down about 40%. This trend reminds me of DVD-R in 2000. I suspect over the next 2 years we will see BD-R costs drop enough to make publishing Hi-def video projects affordable to most video and film professionals.
We are not there yet, but with the most recent release of BD(Blu-ray) players being under $200, I suspect the market will begin to adopt much more quickly.
This Christmas Season will be very tell-tale for the Blu-ray Disc Industry.
For more information on Blu-ray Duplication, you can contact us at:
415-929-1581
DVD Copycat, Inc.
745 Fillmore, #101
San Francisco, CA 94117
Video and Film professionals who wish to shoot and publish their projects in Hi-Def have, to this point, been frustrated with the prohibitive costs associated with manufacturing a Blu-ray Disc.
Say an average filmmaker or video professional wants to make 1000 copies of their film and put it on Blu-ray(BD) Disc. Unlike DVD, they will have to pay a mandatory up front AACS licensing fee. Going rate is about $1500 to $2000 plus an ongoing royalty.
After paying this mandatory licensing fee, it will cost approximately $3.5 per unit to manufacture a Blu-ray package that is ready for distribution and sale.
For a typical standard definition DVD, there is no mandatory licensing fee for encryption and the cost would be approximately $1.49 per unit to manufacture.
Comparing these costs, a filmmaker will have to pay an extra 266% over the cost of a standard DVD to publish on Blu-ray Disc. Almost every client I have spoken to about these costs has declined to go Blu-ray.
As economies of scale take effect, the costs to manufacture Blu-ray Discs will likely come down and eventually be similar to DVD costs. However, the real barrier to smaller companies adopting hi-def is the mandatory AACS licensing fee imposed by AACS Licensing Administrator, LLC. This additional $1500-$2000 (plus per piece royalty), will likely be too expensive for most, and is just one more barrier to widespread adoption of Blu-ray Disc technology.
My hopes are that AACS Licensing Administrator, LLC. drops the mandatory licensing fee for smaller Blu-ray Disc orders. If they do not, I suspect that an entire market of filmmakers and video professionals will be choosing DVD over Blu-ray Disc for the distribution of their projects.
For more information on Blu-ray Disc Duplication and Replication you can contact us directly:
Brian G Fisher
DVD Copycat
745 Fillmore, #101
San Francisco, CA 94117
415-929-1581
Well there is some promising news for Blu-ray Duplication (BD-R Duplication). In late 2007 When the first burnable Blu-ray discs came out blank disc costs were quite high. For most industry professionals, releasing a small project in Hi-def on Blu-ray discs was completely cost prohibitive. For quality printable surface BD-R discs the average cost to our client was around $60. Over the course of the last year there has been dramatic drops in the cost of burnable Blu-ray discs. We have seen cost come down for our top quality discs by 40%.
This is good news to the filmmaker or video professional who is shooting in Hi-def. If the current trend continues Blu-ray Duplication for smaller runs of discs (5-500 discs) should come within a much more cost effective price range.
IF the current trend continues, we hope to see 2009 as the first year where an order of, say 50 Blu-ray discs, is financially justifiable for the high end projects, and anticipate widespread adoption in 2010.
At DVD Copycat, we are very encouraged by these cost reductions and continue to provide Blu-ray Duplication for a wide range of Hi-def video projects.
For more information regarding Blu-ray Duplication contact us at: www.dvdcopycat.com
or call toll free at 1-866-210-8768
local 415-929-1581
I have recently posted new definitions for CD Duplication, DVD Duplication and BD Duplication on Google Knol.
If anyone reading these has any comments or addtions to these definitions, please let me know and I will make the updates.
Often times we get the question “what is DVD Duplication, and what is the difference between DVD Duplication and DVD Replication”.
DVD Duplication is defined as the copying or burning of the contents of one DVD to multiple copies. Depending on the blank media you use, the quality of the outcome can vary from very almost perfectly reliable to very poor results. If you want quality results on your Duplication, it means that you have to spend the extra money to buy good blanks. Its that simple and is the difference between happy customers and irate complainers.
The difference between Duplication and Replication is the manufacturing process. Replication most often becomes more cost effective than Duplication at 1000 pcs. In the DVD Replication process, a glass master is created, then a stamper is made from that master and is used to physically stamp the metallic layer on the disc. Most of the cost is in the glass master and the setup, which can them be amortized over the cost of 1000 discs or more. With Duplication the cost of the blank burnable media is fixed, so there is only so much cost reduction that can be achieved, which is typically only the amortized setup costs plus the blank media costs.
If you would like more info on DVD Duplication or Replication you can contact us at:
DVD Copycat
415-929-1581
Ask for Amy or Brian
DVD Copycat offers a wide range of Hi-Def solutions for your next Blu-ray Project.
Bring us your Disc Image or Blu-ray(BD-R) master and we can duplicate discs for you with top of the line professional grade disc printing and packaging. If you are delivering the latest video technology on a Blu-ray disc to your client, it should have the cutting edge professional appearance reflective of this exciting new video format.
Bring us your edited final version of Hi-def video and we can compress it for you and author a BD-R(blu-ray burnable disc) disc. Menu design, compression and authoring are available.
If you have a project that requires 2500 or more Blu-ray Discs, we can replicate those for you in 14 to 21 business days.
In short, if you are in need of Blu-ray disc services, whether they are burnable blu-ray discs (BD-R), or standard replicated Blu-ray discs (BD) we have a solution for you at DVD Copycat.
If you would like to contact me direct write me here at Brian@dvdcopycat.com
or call us at: 415-929-1581 for San Francisco, Bay Area and California
or toll free: 1-866-210-8768
Ask for Brian or Joe and we will be happy to help.
At DVD Copycat we only use the very highest quality cases for our DVD Duplication projects. All of our DVD Duplications are placed in the original genuine Amaray Box by Nexpak, the US industry standard.
Genuine Amaray boxes are know to have a reliable locking mechanism so the discs wont fall out, and are made with very strong plastic, ….. not those flimsy cases the don’t close and bend.
We could get cheaper boxes at literally 1/3 the price of the genuine Amaray, but we chose to provide you with a solid, reliable product that will stand the test of time.
At DVD Copycat we provide the highest quality disc printing for short run CDs and DVDs (1-750 pcs).
If you’re looking for a way to create an impact with your DVDs or CDs, our full color offset quality printer cannot be beat. We use Rimage 3 printers equivalent to 173 line screen quality print. The highest quality print in the industry, and the image is transfered directly to the disc surface resulting in a glossy scratch and water proof image embedded right into the disc surface.
There is no higher quality CD or DVD print solution for low volume in the industry.
Call us and we will send you a sample print and you can judge for yourself.
415-929-1581 or Toll Free 1-866-210-8768
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