--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Not Disclosed <knot_disclosed@...> wrote:
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> I am a certified tech and I can tell you that getting a DVD RW drive is the better bet in the long run. They can burn CD's & DVD's, and for a little extra you can get a blue-ray burner. However finding just a CD burner is like finding a VHS player; you can find them but they cost as much as a DVD burner and they are limited to burning just CD's. And don't spend more then $40 for an internal drive and $80 for an external USB drive or your getting riped off. And Jim you may want to consider this for an idea... publish the CD's as planed over 3 months and then on a 4th month offer a DVD that would include everything that the CD's have on them at a slightly discounted price (like save 5 or 10 bucks on the total price) that way you can please the most people with the most options possible for the least cost (it cost approx $1.50 per disk to produce including time, disk, and jewel box to put it in; per disk. "Not including the art work" no matter
> weather you are making a CD or a DVD).
Well, the only thing I burn on CDs are back-up copies of the websites and my second system's "D" drive, which is the only harddrive I have with anything on it which isn't a program. I don't have a DVD burner, since I have no reason to burn DVDs, and I don't bother with a Blu-ray format, since all my movies are either on DVD or VHS. Likewise, all my music is either on CD (actual store-bought copies), vinyl records, or cassette tapes. You wanna talk about difficult, try finding a damn tape deck nowadays! I still have 3 dual decks and one single tape deck, plus 2 VCRs. I've never seen any reason to get anything else, since what I have is precisely what I need.
As for the "all-on-one-DVD" idea, Ed and I discussed that and realized that it would actually be sorta self-defeating. Why would someone buy the different CD's when they could just wait to get all of them on one disk? And for folks who bought all the CDs, don't you think they'd be kinda ticked that they bought them for "X" dollars, when they could've bought a DVD for "Y" dollars? Not to mention, if someone only want s a few folios, why should they pay a bunch of money for a huge DVD collection with 400 pictures they didn't actually want?
The idea sounds good, but we just figured that, by breaking the collections up a little, we could cater to a more specific customer market.
--JMH
Received on Tue Oct 20 2009 - 17:16:29 CDT