From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Music is down, Video is still doing well, with the release of more and more
film catalog.  DVD sales at the replicator end, is making up for more than
the loss/drop on the CD side of things.

--
Glenn M.


"Geo."  wrote in message news:4043f200{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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
> news:4043e605$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > 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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