Making a Retial DVD

[dfgh11]

I am making a DVD for somebody that wants to make it saleable. To do that I told him that he'd have to get the finished product pressed rather than have it on DVD-r/+r; so that it'll work on all players. However, I realised that I know very little about where to go to do this. He doesn't want many copies of this DVD, maybe, 100 to start with. So I was just wondering if anybody who had any experience in this area, could point me in the right direction.

[housepig]

it's going to be really hard to find a pressing plant that will do that small a run, without charging a ton of money - most pressing plants don't want to deal with an order of less than 1,000, it's not cost effective.

a good chunk of what you pay for is setup time and technical work - not the actual materials and pressing. for example, I know a cd-pressing plant that will do 500 cds for $500, or 1,000 cd's for $550. It's not like the material cost on the second 500 went down $450, it's that the setup and tech work is going to run $450 whether you run 1 copy or 1,000.

same with dvd pressing - there's going to be a fixed setup cost, so you might convince someone to press 100 discs, but you will probably pay $10 or more for each one.

if you decide to do dvd-r or dvd+r, Freedom-From records has started a short-run duplication service that will do dvd and cd burns.

[takeshi]

Yeah, I was checking into Discmakers and they will do runs of as little as 300, but you'll pay as much as it costs to produce 1,000.

[Red96TA]

check with www.cdman.com they can do lots of 500 dvd-5's for $1000 for just the disks and 2-color silkscreen. Or upwards of $1700 for the same 500 disks pressed, packaged, and shipped for the money...the whole 9 yards.

The good thing about these guys is that they don't charge for the glass masters.

[housepig]

Red - are they pressed or burned?

[freestyler]

Pressed. Discs are delivered on a spindle, however...

[housepig]

oh, that's not a problem - if I have stuff done, I'll probably want to do my own custom packaging.

have either of you guys dealt with them before? how is the quality & turn-around time?

[Bodyslide]

Info from CD Man on a quote
This quote is in U.S. dollars / All prices must be verified before ordering.


Qty:

500 DVD-5 at $1.99 per disc 995.00

1 DVD-5 Glass master included for free on this order. 0.00

4 Silk Screen Colours on disc 25.00

4 I will upload DVD label design (see above) then approve PDF email proof
80.00

0 Bulk DVD's no packaging 0.00

0 No Booklet Printing 0.00

0 0.00

0 No Slip cover printing 0.00

0 No barcode 0.00

500 Shipping 2nd day to MidW/South 38.50

Total in U.S. Dollars 1138.50

[trock]

I've had very good results with http://www.cdrom2go.com

100 disks are $2.49 each and 50 disks are $2.99 each.

[Bodyslide]

I've had very good results with http://www.cdrom2go.com

100 disks are $2.49 each and 50 disks are $2.99 each.

But these are just DVD-R's and not pressed DVD's, Correct?

[trock]

Ah, so.

Yes, you're right. My mistake.