DVD pressing facilities.

[gooki]

Hope this is the right forum.

I require a list of companies that offer DVD pressing facilities (ie making DVD silvers). This is ofcourse for content that I have copyright over. I'm not concerned where they are in the world, as long as they produce good quality pressed discs and accept reasonably small runs 1000+ discs at a time.

Thank you. .Gooki

[gooki]

Found one place.

http://www.lexhk.com/

any others would be appreciated.

[SirDavidGuy]

I'm not concerned where they are in the world, as long as they produce good quality pressed discs and accept reasonably small runs 1000+ discs at a time.

Whoa, a bit small for most.

Are you sure you don't want some replication facility? The cost for producing glassmasters, etc. for small numbers is very great.

[gooki]

Thanks for the idea. We considered DVD replication but decided upon having them properly produced.

http://www.lexhk.com/ do runs of 1000 DVD's for just $1.60 USD per unit including the glass master which is prety darn good.

And we want to avoid replication facilities for three reasons.

1) Cost of setup.

2) Cost of quality DVD-R media.

3) Pressed silvers should be 100% compatible with standalone DVD players where as DVD-R is approx 80% compaitble.

[jesoonster]

hate to be so snobbish, but what are you pressing in such "small numbers"?

[gooki]

Jesoonster - I don't mind the question.

In New Zealand we only have a population of three million people, so we don't have the peple base to make large runs of niche market films.

One example is a Import Street Racing/Tunning film. The creators have been releasing it on VHS for the past two years with good but not great success. Due to the massive drop in quality from DV video to VHS they're real keen on releasing a limited run DVD this year along side the VHS release to determine if they should drop VHS production all together.

The other example I can offer is a few film makers are interested in sending out there work on DVD to reviewers instead of VHS. Once again it's a quality issue, and if a reviewer gets a higher quality sample of their product the creators believe the reviewers will be more favourable and will enjoy the experience more.

Actually one of our customers is after a 500 disc run, and we are strongly sugesting they go for 1000 disc minimum as the cost for the extra 500 will be minimal.

[auenf]

ok, now that you said your in New Zealand...

the company i work for is based in Sydney, and uses 2 manuf. for DVD's, one in Melbourne, and one in Taiwan.

Melbourne is the most reliable and is called Regency Recordings, they make it all in melbourne and are quite fast.

i cant remember prices off hand, but its something (will edit if i remember to find out price) per disc for 1000, no stamper cost (quantity under 1000 will incur a stamper cost).

in Taiwan you can get 2000 discs for the same price as 1000 from regency, but they require full payment up front (or at least before shipping will start).

i highly recommend regency, we make budget DVDs and the low price (i think its in the vicinity of AU$1/disc) is good, last time i spoke to them i think they would only accept DLT, but i was mainly talking about DLT and image formats that time.

Taiwan will accept DVD-R(A) discs tho.

Enf...

[sarahjh69]

do a search on google
there is a firm in the east of europe
that will do 1000 at less than 1 pound a go
they ship anywhere and don't care about copyright either.
or try www.da.ru they sometimes advertise on there.

[gooki]

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

auenf does Regency Recordings have a website.

[auenf]

www.regencyrecordings.com.au (amazingly ;) )

they also do stuff for WAMO every now and then, and i forgot to lookup the price, sorry.

Enf...

[gooki]

Thank you.

[auenf]

http://www.stebbing.co.nz/

little closer to you, they can do 1000 DVD-5 discs for au$1.45ea, regency is au$1.70 for the same quantity, neither incur stamper cost for 1000 or more.

Enf...

[gooki]

Wow, thanks heaps.