From: "Glenn Meadows" 

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
news:404142e3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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