Format War Over: Toshiba gives up HD-DVD

[Steve Connor]

It’s now official – Toshiba have formally announced it!

Steve Connor
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[Eric Pautsch]

Hi Walter

Did you mean to say your duplicating not replicating..right? Also recheck the licensing fees. They’re now $3000 and a $.04 per disc charge for up to 100,000 units.

Also are these titles your selling to the public on burned media? I hate to think of the compatibility issues you might have. 🙂

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Eric Pautsch] “Did you mean to say your duplicating not replicating..right?”

Replicating. We have a two unit replicator.

[Eric Pautsch] “Also recheck the licensing fees. They’re now $3000 and a $.04 per disc charge for up to 100,000 units.”

And what’s the mastering fee? Last I checked it was between $2,500 – $4,500 depending on the length of the disc.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Eric Pautsch]

The place I found in has a $1500 mastering fee but I managed to get those waived – but I was giving them some work. So your looking at $1.30/unit for 2500 units with a one time AACS license fee of $3000 for up to 100,000 units.

BD replicators are multi Million dollar systems…yours is a burner…I’m I correct?….so that would be duplicating.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Eric Pautsch] “BD replicators are multi Million dollar systems…yours is a burner…I’m I correct?….so that would be duplicating.”

Just going by what the Owner’s Manual says.

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[Rennie Klymyk]

I’m not up on the bluray volume process (whether it is pressed from a master or blasted with a blue laser flash from the moon or what) but this discussion sounds like standard DVD replicating by pressing from a glass master as opposed to burning on a burner thing. Replicating being pressed from a glass master and burning being made on a dvd burner in a computer.

In the beginning, there was only replicating from DLT to glass masters until pioneer invented the S-101 burner (with scsi connections) and the 3.9 GB DVD-R authoring media. Blank discs were $50.00 ea and the burner was $7-$8000.00. Daikin DVD authoring SW was $170,000.00.

Within 2 short years we had the pioneer A01 drives (about $600.00) and 4.7BG discs (about $20.00) and after Daikin amalgamated with sonic there were a 1/2 dozen authoring apps available for $1500.00 and up.

Today a burner is $39.95, discs are 20¢ and SW is free.

By comparison BluRay seems to be a much slower evolution in going from Hollywood to mainstream given it is somewhat following DVD technology.

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