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I came across a couple of very informative articles about BD costs. They were referenced in an equally informative thread about the subject at AVSForum.
This article tells why the cost of licensing AACS encryption poses a substantial barrier to large segments of the video distribution industry. Quote:
So why don't producers simply release discs without AACS? There is, after all, lots of video material like corporate training programs that doesn't need to be protected with arcane encryption schemes. Unfortunately the license to use Blu-ray media requires that you pay the AACS royalties on all replicated discs regardless of whether you choose to use it or not. Small producers might be able to avoid the royalties by burning rather than stamping the discs. That's probably impractical for an anime licensor. Finally I have to cite this description of the legal position espoused by MPEG LA, the body that licenses use of the MPEG-2/4 and other key algorithms. Quote:
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2009-02-06, 00:43 | Link #45 | ||
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2009-02-06, 00:47 | Link #46 |
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If I'm reading things right, the copy protection on the disc makes up only around $1.35 of that $7.54. Still a significant hit to the bottom line for a niche production though.
And with the prices for Bluray media, I think it'll be a while before burn based duplication is affordable. Besides which burned discs degrade far, far more quickly than pressed. |
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I don't know about BD media, but with DVDs while it used to be the case many many years ago, especially with cheap media, that's definitely not the case anymore, barring extreme temperature conditions. Most good media (Taiyo Yuden, Verbatim produced MKM and MCC MIDs) on good burners actually have vastly superior error rates compared to stamped media. I found that surprising at first but that fact seems to be well known among a few. And from my own experience and anecdotal evidence, the error rates on such good media still remain low after some time so the quality remains higher than pressed dvds. Perhaps after many decades, the quality would degrade below pressed media but then again, good media is supposed to have a theoretical lifespan of 100 years..
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2009-02-06, 08:21 | Link #48 |
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I believe the example collected together all the costs involved in AACS licensing and overheads and amortized them over a 1,000 copy run. The author was clearly intent on making these numbers as large as possible. But it's not unreasonable to toss in stuff like attorney's fees when you, as a producer, will inevitably spend upon walking into the legal minefield that Blu-ray production appears to be. The paragraph right before the one I posted reads, "With its slew of legal agreements, upfront charges, recurring fees, and other imperatives, BD replication is a time-consuming, expensive, and all-around frustrating proposition for small- and medium-sized publishers." I think he's bundling in that "slew" to get to $7.54.
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I've had good luck with the TDK stuff I used in the past, but I do worry about all the outsourced media codes I'm seeing with their discs now. Plus I recently started looking into dual layer burns, and have been having horrible luck with their discs for that - however, I'm not sure if that's the discs or my burner. Quote:
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/8008/hdow6.jpg (Mastering can also effect how good a series looks even using the same medium I've seen screencaps comparing the R2 and R1 DVDs of Shakugan no Shana that don't look far off that Gunbuster comparison.) |
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However some BDs have issues and don't look so great like Air and Full Metal Panic |
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