From: "Geo." 

I thought it was both the Movie Industry (DVD's) and the Music Industry
(CD's) that was suffering a 15% decline in sales due to rampant piracy by
little old ladies and 10 year old kids?

Unless you are saying they are busy making blanks? (what other directions?)
I'm in the plastics industry, most molders are still running 10-20% below
normal.

Geo.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> Most of the capacity is being taken up with CDROM production, and many
> plants have presses that convert from CD to DVD molds, and they're
swinging
> over to DVD work.  PLUS, the same basic machines that mold CD's can be
> converted/upgraded to CDR manufacture.  While music sales may be down,
> utilization of capacity at the plants has gone in other directions of
> optical disks.
>
> --
> Glenn M.
>
>
> "Geo."  wrote in message
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> > I thought sales were down 15% now, should be lots of extra capacity just
> > waiting for work to come along, no?
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> > "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> > news:40410f3e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > Even with our small "relative to these numbers" of
audio CD's, our
lead
> > time
> > > for short runs, is in the order of weeks to a month. Getting that kind
> of
> > > capacity for a large run would really be in that time frame.  Yea, we
> can
> > > get 500 in a day or two, all things being equal.  To generate that
kind
> of
> > > volume, in a short turnaround, would require the use of MANY plants,
and
> > > probably a buy out of their capacity for some time.
> > >
> > > Major music releases doing 1 million CD's typically can take 6-8 week
> lead
> > > times using multiple plants.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Glenn M.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Tony Ingenoso" 
wrote in message
> > > news:40387b45{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > Order hundreds of thousands of CD's some time and see
how much lead
> time
> > > the duplicator gives you.   2-3 months from gold master to
> > > > users mailbox would be exceptional turnaround IMO.
> > > >
> > > > "Rich Gauszka" 
wrote in message
> > > news:40363e84$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > > > As it's a start I can appeciate that. I'd
appreciate it even more
if
> > it
> > > was
> > > > > a bit more up-to-date.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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