DVD duplicators

[Haopengyou]

There was some detailed discussion on simultaneous dvd burning about 3 years ago online I did a bit of searching recently and did not find anything quite as comprehensive as that thread, but three years is quite a long time in the IT industry. I could not decide which forum was the most appropriate place to post this, so please feel free to move it.

I would like to pick your brains on the subject . I want to made a dvd duplicator that will make 6 copies of the same file/movie/music, etc at the same time. I am hoping to have a machine that will hum along at at least 4x. and will handle the usual hodge podge of disks: cdr cdrw, dvdr dvdrw. Most of the posts that I have read are looking to make 2 or 3 at one time but there were some looking for as many as 8. My questions are:

1. I have seen dedicated duplicators to do this task but I have not heard good results from the ones that are cheap enough for mortal man to buy. What have you heard?

2. What are the minimum hardware requirements (cpu & memory)? Keep in mind...many of the posts that I read on this site and others were made by people wanting to "recycle" an older machine, i.e. a P3 or a 1.0 ghz celeron.

3. What kind of software will make 6 (or as many as 8) simultaneous copies - either Windows or Linux? Linux is preferable, of course because it would drop the cost of this project to hardware only.

4. What kind of interfaces are best suited for this, i.e. eide, usb, sata, firewire, scsi?

5. Is it better to copy the original movie/file etc to the hard drive and burn from the hard drive, or just plop the original disk into a dvd drive and copy from the original?

6. Which mfg of dvdrw's tend to make drives that are more suitable for this kind of work?

7. A fundamental question that I have never seen addressed - How big of a power supply will someone need to make all of this squeal? Are external drives a better option than internal? It would make the power supply a moot issue. Can usb and firewire be daisy chained?

[cobanmatt]

Hi, you can search DVD duplicator in Google.
The no . 1 position is Copystars.com who offer a lot of DVD duplicators and 2 years warranty .
You may also check www.ocie.com.[/i][/b][/url]

[Haopengyou]

Thanks! I have googled and seen the bits and pieces of data. What I am especially looking for now is someone who can say "yes, this device is really cool, all the copies are awesome" or "don't buy this kind of thing it is a piece of trash" or "this is way too difficult to use" - personal references